But lets just pretend, for the sake of sheer stupidity, that Brazil DID stop using oil and went totally onto ethanol produced from sugar. Does anybody in America believe that if we suddenly increased our sugar production by about 4000% in order to produce the amount of ethanol needed to replace just Saudi Arabia alone that the Sierra Club would allow it?
The sugar producers get extorted all the time because the super nitrogen-rich run off from the waste of the sugarcane is considered a toxin byproduct and the sugar companies are fined by the EPA for 'poisoning' the rivers and lakes which are downstream from their productions. It is absolutely true that dumping sugarcane stocks is incredibly unbalancing to the environment and causes a host of changes in the ecosystem which are unexpected and unwanted.
But hey, aren't we willing to kill out a few thousand lakes and rivers in order to get rid of foreign oil? Producing sugar in the level necessary to produce enough ethanol to replace foreign oil would create more environmental damage and the damage would be here in the U.S. instead and not in the arabian peninsula. They could consider corn as the alternative but you end up with somewhat the same problem and we probably don't have enough currently turnable farmland to do this kind of output without stopping all production directed at actual foodstocks.
The dirty little secret of enegy independance is high taxes on cars, so people don't have them. Car tax is $10,000.an. They need Arnold!
Won't do any good. The big O is about as dunce and any RAT.
That jerk wouldn't get it. He has to be one of the dumbest jerks on tv.