From Wired News comes this thought provoking story titled Brazil Schools U.S. on Renewables. I love the concluding paragraph of the story:
Consumer acceptance of ethanol in Brazil has grown for financial reasons, according to Felipe Atoline, a Sao Paulo forestry engineer who now drives an ethanol-only car. Many Brazilians were unhappy when the government mandated that all gasoline fuel be mixed with 26 percent ethanol in the 1990s, but rising gasoline prices have convinced many Brazilians to buy cars that run on 100 percent ethanol or convert their gasoline-powered cars, Atoline said.
Boy would I love to put locally grown (I live in the midwest) and produced ethanol in my cars and spend less than I do for gasoline.
