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Here's the killer in all this. While we are giving huge tax breaks to farmers for attempting to grow corn for ethanol, Brazil is growing sugar cane, which if I recall, gets about 2.5 times more ethanol per acre than corn and 8-10 times the energy. Our politicians are so beholden to the corn industry that we tax Brazilian ethanol at 54 cents a gallon, making it too expensive to import even though Brazil has a huge excess.
It wouldn't cure the problem of course, but it would make a hell of a dent in prices. They give tax breaks for Flexfuel cars, but you can't even find the stuff half of the time.
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