From the Fact-Based Community – The Real Cost of Ethanol
Alternative fuels are much in the news these days. Brazil is well on its way (if not there already) to complete energy independence. They are doing it with ethanol formed from sugar cane. As it happens, sugar cane as a fuel source is much more efficient than the corn based solution so favored by… well, by corn producers (think ADM ‘Supermarket to the World”) and their congressional representatives (think of the vermillion states in the midwest).
Steve Stolt is an economist who crunched some numbers that tell why corn based ethanol is a non-starter for our cars.
Here are the numbers.