Another tidbit for your information....

It takes a good fraction (and some experts even say it takes MORE) energy to
fertilize, grow, harvest, and process corn (or other plants?) to make
ethanol.....

And we are not counting the free solar energy from sunlight that grows the
crops either.....

Or in otherwords it takes something like 2/3 a gallon of gasoline/diesel to
perhaps as high as 1.5 gallons to make just one gallon of ethanol....I am going
on memory here.....

So, making ethanol only really makes sense if you use something like wind,
solar, or nuclear power to provide the vast majority of power and energy used
in the whole production cycle of ethanol....

If you dont do THAT, then your at best making a little more ethanol than the
gas you started with (and wasted alot of valuable food and land in the process)
and at worst you've actually ended up with LESS fuel than you started with (and
have totally wasted a non-renewable fuel source)....

take care

Blll