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

How about sugar beets? When I lived in Ohio, they grew a lot of it, then.
(30 years ago)

How would it be for making alcohol?

It still cost 2x as much as gas to produce and you use 2x as much of it.
In Brazil as in the USA, Ethanol is subsidized to make it feasible.
They would be better off making rum from that sugarcane and trading it
for gas.

Tony