Ethanol from corn is now bad

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-deadzone_18nat.ART.State.Edition1.36b7fdd.html

This falls into the category of "what's bad is good, what's good is bad". According to recent news the use of ethanol as opposed to regular gas is supposed to be better for the environment. It's a renewable resource producing cleaner energy. But wait, our solution has apparently created a deadly side effect in the Gulf of Mexico. The fertilizer (crap) used to grow corn crops eventually makes its way there and depletes the waters of oxygen. Fish and crabs die off (or move elsewhere). Could this be as bad as an oil spill? Maybe it's worse since cleaning up an oxygen depleted ocean could take centuries. And it's especially bad since the problem is now getting worse.

Farmers now get paid $4 per bushel up from $2 in 2002. So the real question is "what is going on with this country?" How can we allow farmers to make more money by growing corn than they do by NOT growing corn? What happened to our subsidy program. Isn't it immoral for us in the most powerful country on earth to force people to earn a living by farming? When will the environmentalists be organizing their marches against the farmers?