With the recent spike in gas prices, we see the acephalous poultry have come out to squawk about subsidizing Archer Daniels Midland by touting ethanol as the solution to our energy woes. It isn't. This article in Business Week lays out the sordid history and real numbers behind ethanol. If you go over to the USS Clueless archives and run this search or this one you'll see another engineering view of "alternative fuels". The sad fact is, ethanol isn't all that. My predictio...