[thackney]

The processes to extract and produce a gallon of gasoline take more energy than the processes to produce a gallon of ethanol.

Not by a long shot. I've worked in remote oil fields where we produced our own fuel. It takes only a tiny fraction of the energy product to make it.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Not by a long shot. I've worked in remote oil fields where we produced our own fuel. It takes only a tiny fraction of the energy product to make it."

Look, dumbass-- the rough cut simple distillation you did to get the energy to run the oil well doesn't comprise nearly all the energy necessary to produce gasoline on a production scale--there is this little thing called an "oil refinery" at the other end of your pipeline that takes HUGE amounts of energy to run. READ THE DAMNE REPORT AT THE LINK.