"Source?"
Do you actually read the articles & posts???
I already told you on post #6 that the World Bank estimates that Brazil produces ethanol for a buck a gallon!
Now either start reading the articles and the posts or go sober up elsewhere!
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Great, we should buy their ethanol then. Sounds much cheaper than much less efficiently making our own.
I think I found your source:
"Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - After nearly three decades of work, Brazil has succeeded where much of the industrialized world has failed: It has developed a cost-effective alternative to gasoline. Along with new offshore oil discoveries, that's a big reason Brazil expects to become energy independent this year.
To see how, take a look at Gildo Ferreira, a 39-year-old real-estate executive, who pulled his VW Fox into a filling station one recent afternoon. Instead of reaching for the gasoline, he spent $29 to fill up his car on ethanol made from sugar cane, an option that's available at 29,000 gas stations from Rio to the Amazon. A comparable tank of gasoline would have cost him $36. "It's cheaper and it's made here in Brazil," Mr. Ferreira says of ethanol. If the price of oil stays at current levels, he can expect to save about $350 a year.
At current prices, Brazil can make ethanol for about $1 a gallon, according to the World Bank. That compares with the international price of gasoline of about $1.50 a gallon."
Two comments:
A VW Fox has a 12.4 gallon tank so it would seem that $29.00 gallon would be well over $2.50/gallon cost to the consumer.
The fuel efficiency of pure ethanol seems to be exaggerated here if that $29 would have been $36 for gasoline which easily goes 30% more miles.
Anyway, the producers are still riding the crest of the subsidies there and only now are they in a position to export economically.
If ethanol can be made to compete profitably here then it will happen, unless the politicians mess it up.