Here's corn ethanol. It's smaller.

Some politicians want to turn corn into ethanol.

Biodiesel which is made by processing rapeseed oil and other vegetable oils, is widely available globally, particularly in France and Germany.

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A policy that entails draining America s limited oil supplies I call it drain America first will leave the US even more dependent on foreign oil. The US imposes a tariff of more than 50 cents per gallon on sugar based ethanol from Brazil, but subsidizes inefficient corn based American ethanol heavily indeed , it requires more than a gallon of gasoline to fertilize, harvest, transport, process, and distill corn to yield one gallon of ethanol.

If you go to corn or cellulosic ethanol, you'd actually increase the death rate slightly.

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He's the father of the ethanol revolution.

Since this quantity is required by the government to be blended with gasoline, regardless of the price of ethanol, corn, or gasoline, the demand that it creates for corn is not at all responsive to the price of corn. In economic terms, such demand is highly inelastic the mandate must be met at any price.

The original thought I had this must be ethanol.

They'd run ethanol or ordinary gasoline.

The added inflexibility (or inelasticity) amplifies the price response to a real or perceived crop shortfall either in the US or elsewhere. In addition, the fact that nearly 40 of the US corn crop is being used for ethanol, up from around 5 a few years ago, means that corn prices must be higher to meet the feed, export, and ethanol demands for corn.

The price of maize, half of which is imported from the US, more than doubled in a year, primarily because of production of bio ethanol. Mexico tried to solve the problem by imposing a state administered price ceiling for maize tortillas, combined with duty free maize imports.

What is bioenergy? Bioenergy is not ethanol.

So, Brazil's ethanol miracle, I'm really afraid, is not enough.

Box 1. Reduction of greenhouse gases through the use of ethanol in Brazil

The process is different from the one implemented in France in Sweden, ethanol is used pure as fuel, whereas in France it is mixed with isobutylene to yield ethyl tertiary butyl ether which is then blended with traditional fuel.

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The good news is that there are many ways by which improved incentives could reduce emissions partly by eliminating the myriad of subsidies for inefficient usages. The US subsidizes corn based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar based ethanol hidden in the tax code are billions of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.

In Brazil, ethanol has proven to be a reliable fuel for cars.

So, what's happened in Brazil is, they've replaced 40 percent of the gasoline consumed by their automotive fleet with ethanol.

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Bioethanol, which can be made from processing maize, sugar cane and beet, wheat, potatoes and a variety of other starch and sugar crops, is widely used in Brazil, the United States of America and parts of Europe.

In Sweden, 200 buses and 200 vehicles are working with ethanol as fuel.

It has a higher octane number than gasoline and contains no sulphur, and does not damage catalytic converters.

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That is what bioenergy is. It is not ethanol. It is not subsidies to a few companies. It is not importing corn into Iowa because you've built so many of these ethanol plants. It is beginning to understand the transition that occurred in agriculture, from brute force into biological force. And in the measure that you can do that, you can clean some stuff, and you can clean it pretty quickly.

Bt corn is a corn that creates its own pesticide to kill a corn borer.

This is the genetic biodiversity storehouse of corn.