> If only corn oil could power cars...

Can't it? I thought some kinda oil (maybe peanut) worked okay... Pretty sure corn oil did too... But... Conflicting the corn lobby with the oil lobby... Bad move...

I thought the US had more corn products than they knew what to do with already. Hence the substitution of sugar (used in the rest of the world) with corn syrup (which tends to be used in the US in soft drinks etc). I'm fairly sure that experts agree that sugar is superior flavor-wise... But then you factor in the corn lobby and... Well its no wonder that diet coke can do its nutrasweet (probably carcinagenic but who cares) 'just for the taste of it' campaign.

Sorry... But corn syrup really does taste nasty...
If it powers cars, then well, good for it :-)