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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gene Zenk" data-source="post: 706301" data-attributes="member: 54808">Do you realize how much conventional oil is used in the production of regular gasoline? From the tanker to haul it half way around the earth, to the electricity and fuel used by the refinery, to the fuel and energy used to construct the thousands and thousands miles of pipelines that deliver it to the center of the country? Not to mention the environmental impacts where the terminals are located to load the ocean tankers when a 'little bit' is spilled while connecting and disconnecting the mammoth hoses and the occasional mishap where the tanker runs aground and spills thousands of barrels of oil.  Ask the locals of Prince William Sound if things are back to 'normal' since the Exxon Valdez spill nearly 20 years ago.The corn is grown in the heartland of the US and turned into ethanol very near where it's grown.  Seems like it would use far less fuel to do that than haul it around the world. The fuel and fertilizer being used on the corn for ethanol is used regardless whether the corn is used for feed or ethanol and the solid byproducts of ethanol production are still used as feed for livestock.  As far as ethanol 'mishaps', I'd venture to guess it has far less impact as it is soluble in water and evaporates very quickly as it is alcohol.No, I'm not a tree hugger, but Olaf's argument doesn't make too much sense to me.  :blink:</blockquote>