[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well Damn...

From that article ....see link at post # 16:

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Flawed carbon accounting schemes at both the federal and state level are creating a dynamic where the U.S. is importing ethanol from Brazil while simultaneously exporting greater volumes back to Brazil.

• The heart of the issue is how both the EPA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are calculating carbon emissions for corn-based ethanol and Brazilian sugar ethanol.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More:

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This “ethanol shuffle” is occurring exclusively as the result of state and federal fuel regulations that “treat Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as if it were the Holy Grail of biofuels,” according to Geoff Cooper, the Renewable Fuels Association’s Vice President of Research and Analysis.

[pallis]

Let Brazil have the advantage by letting them keep all their ethanol, and we can keep our corn for food, trade problem solved, energy saved.