Common Sense Question on the Ethanol scam

From SAB

Why don’t the producers of ethanol use their own product in the production of their product. It certainly would be elegant if that were the case.

So I’m proposing a mandate on the ethanol producers. They should use ethanol in their tractors that plant the corn and cultivate their crops. They should use ethanol in the combines that harvest the corn and ethanol in the trucks that haul the corn to the ethanol factory.

The ethanol factory should be mandated to buy a generator and generate their own electricity with ethanol and use ethanol instead of coal to process the product. Then if there’s anything left over they can use ethanol in the tanker trucks to haul the ethanol to the filling stations for the consumers to buy.

If there’s anything left.