[Lorianne]

I don’t know about that. But even the growing of corn uses a lot of oil.

I’d like to see the total amount of oil (or other carbon based fuel) used to get ethanol, including growing, harvesting, transportation, processing, etc)

[Mr. Lucky]

Whether you like fuel ethanol or not, prohibiting farmers from raising crops isn't the key to America's energy Independence.

Depending upon tillage practices for a given year, I'll use maybe 5 - 10 gallons of diesel per acre to grow a corn crop and deliver it either to an elevator or ethanol plant. That acre of corn will yield 500 - 600 gallons of ethanol, 3,000 - 3,500 pounds of protein feed and enough forage for a cow and calf to winter.