re: #277 Jadespring

And also with ethanol there’s the net energy factor to deal with. Namely that it takes more energy to make it then you get out of it with most of that energy coming from fossil fuels.

With the greater insolation near the equator, Brazil can grow sugar cane such that the net energy is indeed positive.

The Brazilians know this, of course, and would expand their ethyl alcohol production if they could export it to the US, but the corn state senators make sure we don’t import too much Brazilian alcohol.