I live in an out of the way place. I have various diesel and gasoline burning pieces of equipment.Last week I cleared a spot for a solar greenhouse with a masonry heater. I had to take down about 10 trees and stump it too. Alone, I was able to get all the trees down and stumps up, wood bucked and split and begin preparing for the foundation in just about 4 days. All the while I was thinking about where I'd be in the project without my backhoe, chainsaw, tractor and wood splitter. Maybe have the first couple of trees down. Life will be different when fuel is scarce.
When petroleum fuels begin to really get short will there be enough allocated to us hicks out here to process firewood or will cities and towns be favored at our expense?

You know I'm a farmer, eh?

I said diesel is higher because it can not be blended with ethanol.

Gasoline is lower in price because it can be blended with ethanol.

And, yes, "Without diesel to sow, to harvest and to transport corn to the distillery (and transport ethanol to market) you don't have 420,000 barrels of anything.

Show us a piece of farm equipment that burns ethanol..."

I've said from Day 1 here that ethanol is negative EROEI.

But that's why diesel has gone over $4.

It more accurately reflects the supply bottleneck.