Aside from this obviously ridiculous pose in front of a fiberglass Superman statue, Barack Obama made a town hall speech that covered global warming and fuel conservation, then drove off in a honking huge GMC Envoy. Were this not bad enough, his lackeys made up a completely false line about it running on an ethanol blend.

"Tommy Vietor, Senator Obama's press secretary, explains: "What Senator Obama has long advocated is the use of vehicles that are more fuel efficient, including but not exclusively hybrids.

"The vehicle senator obama travels in while in illinois is a Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV), which can run on e85, a blended fuel made of 85 percent ethanol."

The only problem with that explanation is that the Envoy isn't listed on the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition's list of vehicles that can run on an ethanol blend. This leads me to another point not mentioned by advocates of running ethanol blends: e85 simply will not get you as high gas mileage as regular 87 octane gasoline. Ethanol blends are really just a subsidy to corn farmers, and are not widely available outside the Midwest.