At least farmers don't need to be guarded.

Yet.

| _{The problem will solve itself.}
|  _{But not in a nice way.}

By all means, let us either end the subsidies for the oil industry or have these subsidies reflected in the cost of oil products. Beware, however, much of these costs would be passed on to the costs of ethanol. The petroleum industry would be viable; it is just that the quantity consumed would be reduced, probably far more than the barrels of fuel being added by the entire ethanol industry.

So, really, all you have done is just identify yet another subsidy for the ethanol industry. And, by the way, the net reduction in our oil imports from ethanol is the relevant figure. Can you tell us the actual net reduction in imports that has occured from the ethanol production that occurred last year?