ABC News says biggest scientific discovery of ‘08 may be that “corn will not replace gasoline”

ABC News opined that “Energy and Climate Change” topped their list of “The Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008″, but said that the biggest “discovery of 2008″ would be that corn will not replace gasoline.

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