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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
They grow cane down south in Louisiana & Florida too, more than in Hawaii actually. And FYI Brazil was able to shift to large scale ethanol consumption in the 1970's relatively quickly because their government was a military dictatorship at the time, which rolled out mandates as well as large subsidies for production.
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I was under the impression that only Hawaii had the right year-round climate needed for sugar cane.
And that we have retarded high import tariffs on sugar in order to keep the high price on sugar from Hawaii lower than what would be cheaper foreign sugar.