Boils down to the price, and the price boils down to---taxes.
Where I live, the gas (petroleum) is almost 2$ per LITER.
Unfortunately I can't grow rape for the seed (too cold), and I don't have a distillery of proper size, but if I did it would pay off.
Out of one ha. of barley I would get some...errrr....(1650*3000)/4100 litres, - that makes 1.207. Litres of fuel (old brewer's rule is one litre per kg of sugar, just remembered that, - the litre being 80%, and 1650 is the kcal pr kg barley vs the 4100 (or was it 4300) kcal pr kg of sugar)
Had I the distillery, I could run the whole farm, all private use, all energy input costs etc on some 10-20 ha. I still have the excess food from the barley, and ca. 10 pr ha bales of straw.
And the crops here are a joke compared to EU or the US, and it's being claimed theirs is a joke compared to S-America.
BTW, the farm is then used up to 5%. Some years back, the EU was paying substities to up to 10% of farmland for NOT being used. Mad isn't it!