To be commercially harvestible, it will have to take up land now used for food. We have a lot of kudzu in the south but it grows in ravines and on hillsides.Quit screwing around with ethanol and start drilling more oil
If kudzuhol is viable then there's no need to choose between it and oil. If, as per the report, kudzuhol can be produced for about $1.30 per gallon then it should retail for less than $2.00 per gallon. That's pretty good.
Another good thing about kudzu is that you can't kill the stuff. Cut it down and it just grows back for you.
Driving engineering types from up north into a southern nuclear plant......the road winds through a wooded area that has been taken over by kudzu. Its climbing the trees, spread like a blanket over everything...happy kudzu, big leaves, vibrtant green. The engineering types are looking and looking and looking and finally one of them says “do plants grow like this because of the radiation????”