Ethanol

Ethyl Alchohol, we love to drink it, so why not put it in our cars. I just read this article about the introduction of ethanol as a fuel source.

It talks about new cars in Brazil and how they run on either ethanol or gasoline. I bet you thought hybrid technology was the next big thing. No, but maybe a hybrid that runs on ethanol!

In Brazil they are producing ethanol from sugar cane, which is the same way they produce the liquor Cachaca. Ethanol is a renewable resource and it pollutes less than gasoline. It is more pure than gasoline so it's only biproducts are CO2 and Water. Theoretically the combustion of gasoline has the same bi-products. But in real life gasoline is poorly refined and produces carbon monoxide and other pollutants.

*Ethanol blended is a marketing scam, like Eminem*

Canada could do a similar thing, ethanol can be cheaply produced from grain (the Russians have been doing it for centuries). And GM could sell us the same cars that they are making in Brazil.