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just 1/2 hour ago (6 AM eastern) there was the above news item on the radio.

It turns out that one unexpected consequence of flex-fuel supply=>
is that the lots of the sugarcane crops are being diverted for producing
ethanol/alcohol(for the vehicles)
instead of
sugar (for the humans)......

in the short term, the price of sugar has risen,
and that reverberates throughout the economy in Brazil ...

The poor & the laboring population need affordable & addictive, edible products, so they may continue producing services & being pawns of industry.
Those better off, desire affordable fuel to power their mobile bio-spheres
with appointments like GPS, Wi-Fi connectivity, AC, ergonomic consoles,
Dolby sound DVD screens to each passenger...all the bells-&-whistles.
----------so, at this present time, there is a dis-equilibrium
pitting ones 'needs' against anothers 'wants' within a social order.

and it goes downhill, from this point onward
eh?





[edit on 9-10-2005 by St Udio]

In the U.S. we produce ethanol mainly from corn, not sugar. There's plenty of capacity and no need to import sugar.

In the U.S. we produce ethanol mainly from corn, not sugar. There's plenty of capacity and no need to import sugar.

I think it was CNN could have been fox network really does not matter, but the cars are designed to run solely on this new type of fuel. They showed taxi drivers filling up and they said it is one half the cost that of normal gas. Not sure just how the blend if it is a blend really works to be honest. Reportedly they said it was better then corn for some reason or another.

[edit on 10/9/2005 by shots]