Seems like a lot of smoke is shoveled here. Inability to quantify an principle can be a sign that opinion, or political agenda, dominates the discourse.
The OBVIOUS answer is to QUIT USING IMPORTED OIL. The middle East could go back to being the non-entity it was before oil was discovered there.
Nuclear power plants producing unlimited energy would take care of the entire issue in one easy step. There is enough fuel to last 10,000 years at current consumption.
And that's without breeder reactors.
Good point about not using Adobe.
The PDF went into great detail about various subsidies for all forms of energy, including petroleum.
My point in posting it was to establish that gasoline is heavily subsidized. I used the figure of three times the rate of ethanol. That got some reaction debating the percentage, as I expected.
Another Freeper pointed out that stabilizing the Middle East is also a form of petroleum subsidy. By including that in the percentages, the subsidy percentage for gasoline to ethanol goes way up. How much? I dont know, but certainly by a huge amount. Add in the fact that we have for years now been spending around one billion dollars a day to import oil from our enemies and we can see that Made in America ethanol suddenly becomes much cheaper in comparison to petroleum