[spikeytx86]

First and for most, cellulose ethanol can be practically made out of anything now, corn stalks, bark, manuer, switch grass etc. The main thing we need to do is make it easily producible in which as of now it is not, however with a little R&D capitol and patience and American Ingenuity and we should have it workable, the Brazilians are almost completely driving flex fuel cars that use ethanol made out of sugarcane. If we could switch our cars to flex fuel or at least half of them, make hybrids more affordable and consumer friendly, move to nuclear energy for just about everything else and then clean coal, natural gas, wind and solar to shore up the rest. If we did all of that in which is very practical we would be fuel independent by 2040.

The look on the middle easts face when they go belly up; Priceless

[thackney]

the Brazilians are almost completely driving flex fuel cars that use ethanol

That is quite an overstatement. Only 15% of Brazil transportation fuel comes from ethanol.

Although the majority of the cars sold there today are flex fuel cars, they only make up less than 8% of the vehicles in Brazil.

Brazil Sugar Ethanol Update – February 2006, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service