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Competitive Analysis of Ethanol Production in Brazil vs. the United States
http://www.blindreason.org/ 2008/ 05/ competitive-analysis-of-ethanol.html
Nice chart on the cost structure showing how ethanol production in Brazil is incredibly more efficient than in the United States. No question our ethanol programs have added to food inflation and corn based ethanol is many magnitudes of efficiency behind sugar based which is grown in Brazil. During a time when it's economy was a lot less stellar Brazil bit the bullet and converted all of it's auto consumption to sugar based ethanol. So does this table make our own efforts on corn based ethanol look excessively costly and inefficient. Yep. But at the same time this problem is not going to be solved by any one solution.
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