Ethanol Isn’t Causing Cereal, Gas Shortage

• By Sen. Chuck Grassley
• Special to Roll Call
• July 17, 2008, 3:19 p.m.

In the clamor to stem the hemorrhaging in the checkout lane and at the pump for American consumers, the blame game is spinning out of control to assign culpability for rising food prices and $4-a-gallon gas. From corporate boardrooms to office carpools and the halls of Congress, people are yearning to nail a scapegoat for rising energy prices.