It is more political than anything – politicians want to show that they’re big on national security and environmentally friendly………..farmers are more than happy to take their money.

Brazil is not more than willing to tear down the the Amazon for U.S. check your sources.

This isn’t a question. It’s a rant. You have no intention of reading any answers, you just wanted us to read your schpiel.

Very good points i just did a speach on this for a class, and im glad to see people are becoming more aware of the problems.
You however are missing one more tie that any economist would love to point out. This drives the price of corn up substantially more than double in the last 6 years.
Many companies like mcdonalds, and tyson are starting to feel the pain from this which can lead to only one thing, food prices being tied to energy prices imagine how inflation would go out of control then. No one wants food prices to rocket out of control the same way oil has.

Dont get me wrong were not on the brink of disaster but we arent headed in the right direction and it is a serious problem.