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Food and Fuel: Brazil Breaks New Records

The key to ethanol production is finding the right raw material. In the US, our public policy for too long as presumed corn was the "right" crop. There real lesson for the US, find the crop that is "cheap", and "low on environmental impact." The Great Plains of the USA gives anyone the answer when you look around and see what grows without fertilizer. However, not enough profit for companies (Monsanto, Cargill, et. al.) and farmers (voters) to make things happen, yet. Time is coming though.