[HeadOn]

That's an interesting statement. Is that a guess, or do you have a source? If it's true, I'd like to file that one away for future use.

[JamesP81]

That's an interesting statement. Is that a guess, or do you have a source? If it's true, I'd like to file that one away for future use.

The source is Agriculture planting data our company gets from our floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. Unfortunately, I can't post that data to the internet because none of you folks paid for it, and I'd get into some serious trouble over it.

[Mr. Lucky]

Your B.S. meter should be ringing on this one.

There are, give or take, 450 million acres of crop land (as opposed to pasture, woodland, etc.) in the United States. At 150 bushels per acre, planting all this land to corn would produce 189 billion gallons of ethanol. While this isn't going to happen, it's not because of a lack of land. Should the efficiency of ethanol production continue to advance, the land is available to produce the feedstocks.