"Unfortunately, they use more oil than they save."
yea right...LMAO
if you're gonna break wind, do it on somebody else's thread will ya...
World Bank estimates that Brazil produces ethanol for a buck a gallon...compared to the international cost of gasoline which is a buck and a half!
If only we could also grow sugar cane near the equator it might make sense. Maybe if we could import Brazil's cheap sugar or their cheap ethanol.
Brazil grows a lot of sugarcane, which is unsurprising given its tropical climate.
We grow corn--and making ethanol from corn is much more difficult than making it from sugarcane (and, hence, more expensive).
Ethanol, as practiced in this country, is nothing but welfare to Archer Daniels Midland, which doesn't need my tax dollars to be profitable.