Ethanol

Cellulose ethanol is the goal for wide spread ethanol use.

Forbes has an article saying it will also be the destruction of plants and nature if it really works as advertised.

I don't think cellulose ethanol will ever be that effective or cost efficient but I also don't think ethanol is a cure all for our energy needs. However, some of the arguments against ethanol are just wrong. One is that ethanol can only be transported by tanker and not by pipelines. That is NOT correct. We can send ethanol through pipelines that are dedicated for ethanol, just like we have pipelines dedicated for oil and others dedicated for natural gas. We can't send ethanol through oil pipelines so we will have to build new ones, but if the product will replace gasoline then it will be economical to build the new pipelines.