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Originally Posted by CFrance
We get very little of our oil from the Middle East. 12.9% Where Does America Get Oil? You May Be Surprised : NPR
We should leave these countries alone to wage their wars and concentrate on developing alternatives to oil. (And not ethanol--or at least not ethanol made from corn. Make it from grass, like the Brazilians do.) |
Its made from sugarcane.
Wikipedia
Brazil’s 37-year-old ethanol fuel program is based on the most efficient agricultural technology for sugarcane cultivation in the world,[12] uses modern equipment and cheap sugar cane as feedstock, the residual cane-waste (bagasse) is used to produce heat and power, which results in a very competitive price and also in a high energy balance (output energy/input energy), which varies from 8.3 for average conditions to 10.2 for best practice production