Do you think we should use U.S. surplus sugar to produce ethanol fuel for cars?

Question

Do you think we should use U.S. surplus sugar to produce ethanol fuel for cars?

Answer 1

There is no where CLOSE to enough surplus sugar to make enough fuel for cars. It's a great idea if that sort of surplus existed, but we have 300 billion cars on the road right now, each guzzling at least a gallon a day. There is probably not enough surplus sugar in the WORLD to fuel all that for any real length of time.

Answer 2

Do we have a lot of surplus sugar in this country?  If so, I haven't heard about it.

If so, we should use it to make some kind of sweetener to offset corn syrup, instead of using it as fuel.  It is almost certainly more valuable (at least right now) as a sweetening product than as a fuel.

In countries where they grow a lot of sugar cane, they will often use the agricultural waste from the sugar cane (called bagasse) in biomass heating systems.    Perhaps you are thinking of that?  But we don't grow much sugar cane here.

Sorry.

Answer 3

Read what your country has done with your surplus corn supply, and at what cost. Ethanol is not the answer to our so-called energy crisis.

Answer 4

If such exists, yes, that's a good SHORT TERM solution. But we need to develop alcohol from cellulose over the long term. Eth/meth is the perfect solution to the hydrogen storage problem.

300 BILLION cars??? LMAO

There are less than 7 billion PEOPLE on this planet!!!!!

Answer 5

Refined sugar would cost to much to waste on Ethanol.

Plus it goes into to many food products.  None is wasted.