I cry more when I think about the amount of farmland being used for bioethanol, something which is barely energy positive. If the US would switch the subsidies and regulations propping that up to propping up solar, it would easily free up a huge amount of land.
That and the excess amount of farming just to feed cows for beef.
Credit to our current system, if there was a need to cut back, we have a lot of easy cuts to gain some wiggle room.
and I cry again when I see mountains of fly ash from coal burning.