What the car factories need to do is to build a engine that will get 200 miles to a gallon of fuel. It might sound a little crazy to some of you but just look at other things that they do like going in space staying a number of days working on the space station and returning to earth , flying to mars, and a lot of other seem like incredible things .

Sooner or later most cars will be hybrids and if they could use alt fuel, sugar cane like in Brazil we'd curb are dependencies on oil and become greener, Why are we not doing this now?

be a lot better to use Hemp Seed Oil. and not import it at all but grow our own, i am tired of all the importing the USA does.

Well.... lets just say dumb butt Bush wont do anything about it.GO OBAMA!!!!

I was briefly watching a special about this. It seemed very postive and Brazil is totally independant on it.The people will need to fight for it. Complaining isn't going toget your voice heard.

Ethanol is used in Brazil (I'm Brazilian) from sugar cane. We don't import sugar, as far as I know we use all sugar cane from our own country. Sugar cane gives much more material to make ethanol than corn does. But there are 2 problems hereOne is the lack of farms to grow sugar cane in the US: every farm now is owned by a company and they probably won't change production from corn to sugar cane in the areas where sugar cane could be grown and that leads us to the second problem, which is: sugar cane does not just grow in any soil and climate. Plus, ethanol is not used every single time in cars in Brazil. Usually people fill it up with ethanol 3 times and with gas once (cars usually accept both), bc of the engine of the cars.So, it is not as simple as the U.S. would like it to be.I'm sure there are other issues I'm not really aware of, but hope this helps.

In case you did not notice it, sugar is a food product as well.

I'm from Brazil but have lived in the US for the past 15 years, and me and my dad have talked about that before... we were wondering if the climate, let's say in Texas, would permit farmers to plant sugar cane here in the US... it makes sense since corn is so yummy, save that for food. But maybe it's expensive to import it from other countries... or the demand there is too high for them to be exporting. Who knows...