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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

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.

It don’t get sub zero in Brazil.