[JL8Jeff]

We have to start somewhere to reduce our dependence on oil. This country will never be able to rely solely on any form of E85 or whatever because we won't have enough capacity to produce it. I remember watching a show where they explained that Brazil uses sugarcane I think for their fuel source because it doesn't take as much energy to get the fuel out of it like corn. There is another "crop" that works much better than corn here in the US and I forget what it is.

edit: it's the sugarbeet that produces much more sugar for ethanol than corn. I think there is another plant as well.