[InABunkerUnderSF]

...it takes 29 percent more fossil energy to turn corn into ethanol than the amount of fuel the process produces.

But maybe if the Government spent a few hundred million (not suggesting that anybody should spend any of their money) to build an ethanol pipeline infrastructure to transport the fuel we could cut this down to only 20 percent?

Then again, how about we just let the market forces decide. Historically speaking the market has a pretty good track record.

[pillbox_girl]

Then again, how about we just let the market forces decide.

Would this be the subsidy fattened, tax manipulated, cartel dominated market we currently live with, or a hypothetical free market where the consumer (and only the consumer) pays the total cost of the energy consumed at the time of consumption?

Some renewable energy sources are subsidized. Do not make the mistaken assumption that the petroleum industry is also not heavily taxpayer subsidized.