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Originally Posted by Rearden
No, it's sugar cane in Brazil. But the corn industry here in the US has done such a good job with their corn-based ethanol PR campaign that the typical American probably thinks that ethanol can be made only from corn, if they know anything at all about alcohol fuels.
The main reason people aren't excited about flex fuels is that there are no alcohol and methanol pumps at their local gas station. Zubrin's plan would create the demand and the market would determine the supply. |
I figured it was most likely sugar cane.
Building the nationwide refueling infrastructure here is a huge hurdle - can (and probably ultimately will) be done, but will take years and beaucoup bucks. Brazil succeeded so quickly because it only has a brazillion vehicles compared to... how many we got?