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These studies also assume that all farm equipment will always run off of petroleum based fuels. But many farmers like to buy their own product and run it in their farm equipment. Now if we can just get the ethanol plants to burn ethanol for heating their mash we'll have a much greener system. Although I'd rather see the mash heated with the excess heat produced at a nuclear plant.

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"These studies also assume that all farm equipment will always run off of petroleum based fuels. But many farmers like to buy their own product and run it in their farm equipment. Now if we can just get the ethanol plants to burn ethanol for heating their mash we'll have a much greener system."

But you still miss the point that you are getting diddly/squat net ENERGY production from corn ethanol.

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These studies also assume that all farm equipment will always run off of petroleum based fuels.

Here's a wind powered tractor plowing a field of algae. Saltwater plants are the future for fuel, not freshwater land plants. The land, water, and sunshine are free. The ocean 200 miles offshore is also free of environmentalists and lawyers. The fuel can be produced closer to the coasts where most people live. Petroleum originally comes from saltwater algae.