The Power is in the Oil

The Power is in the oil Gentlemen start your engines. Believe it or not there are some similarities if you said that phrase to singer Neil Young or Indy racer Paul Dana, for both believe what fuels their vehicles should be grown by American farmers. Neil Young, one of the founders of the annual Farm Aid charity concerts travels the country on busses run with vegetable oil grown on American farms. Ethanol fuels something much smaller, but oh so much hotter for Paul Dana who drives for the Indy Racing League's Infiniti pro-series. When Dana isn't racing he is busy promoting ethanol within his racing league and to farmers and consumers. He says the ability to blend petroleum and ethanol is no longer pie in the sky and urges everyone he meets to move to the next generation of fuel technology. Both Young and Dana promote the fact that green fuel not only will reduce emissions but will diminish our dependency on foreign oil while creating more jobs in a sector near and dear to both of them, rural America . Soon we could all be saying fill er up with corn oil. This is Susan Allen with Today's Food Forethought.