[RedMonqey]

"Nothing like GROWING your own fuel to allow us to thumb our noses at OPEC; they can't eat oil."

I like that ideal but at the rate we are losing farm acrage to development, it may come to late to make much of a difference.

[Army Air Corps]

Currently, i live in a farming/petroleum community. The farmers here don't care if they sell a few acres because technology (biotech, chemistry, etc) allows them to generate more per acre than they ever have in the past. Soybeans grow rather quickly and you can grow tons and tons of the stuff per acre. Also, we still have enormous amounts of farmland. If we were still using 1920s farming technology, I would be worried. We are using technologies that allow an acre of land to be five times, or more, productive than it was a generation ago.