Corn oil, where are we gonna get this precious commodity?

Question

Yes, corn oil. That stuff that we used to take for granted when we thought about corn at all.

We really want it for ethanol, cause it is cleaner and cheaper, i guess. And it doesn't start wars and get people killed like gasoline.

New York city probably wants corn oil real bad, cause they just passed a law that says "no trans-fats" in there restraunts.

And the developers want the land that it grows on!
Maybe we should all start investing in corn oil futures?
Can we burn the transfat, that New York doesn't want, in our cars?

Answer 1

There will be plenty of corn oil. Corn is not in short supply, and ethanol factories are springing up all over the Midwest. However, you seem to think that these are a cure-all when ethanol certainly has its own problems. Trans-fats occur when man artificially saturates vegetable oils. So we just don't hydrogenate as large of a quantity of vegetable oils - no need to burn trans fat in cars.