Roger wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2006 22:04:30 +1000, "ventus2"
wrote:

They're doing it in Brazil, so
effectively that Brazil is now self sufficient in fuel supply (and they
don't have much indigenous oil production) and have tapped only a small
portion of their production potential...I'm pretty sure we could do the
same in North America.

Brazil has a lot of sugar cane which yields far more alcohol than corn
and lends itself well to mechanized growing and harvesting.


Ther are temperate sugar canes, like sorghum. It grow OK in Ohio,
don't know how the sugar content compares to tropical sugar
canes.

I suppose we could import our ethanol from Cuba...

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FF