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Originally Posted by Two Bills
From what I found, most of our Ethanol was/is imported from Brazil, mainly manufactured from sugar cane.
British Sugar Corp. opened a plant in UK in 2007, and use Sugar Beet.
Seems we now produce about 35% of our own.
All that pees me off, is my car needs the 5% Ethanol gas, which is about 63 cents a US gallon more than the 10% Ethanol fuel.
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Thanks. Brazil does it right: Ethanol from sugar cane is about a 7-1 return on energy invested to produce it. Over here we use mainly corn, which at best is a push: you put as much energy into producing it as you get back out of it. We could be using sorghum, which I understand grows just about everywhere corn does and gives about a 2-1 return, but we don't.
Maybe I'm in a minority, but it just seems immoral to be using food for fuel.