An Energy Revolution

I like the idea of an ethanol/methanol economy, as described by Dr. Robert Zubrin in this article. There are significant reasons that ethanol/methanol are better choices than hydrogen for powering our transportation infrastructure, and the benefits of keeping all the money currently sent overseas in the U.S. are not insignificant. Switchgrass, which Bush mentioned in the state of the union (has any other plant ever been mentioned in a SOTU address?) can be grown over much of the US and is a much better producer of ethanol than corn, so Southern farmers might get into the action along with the big midwestern farms.