A Win For Everyone But Big Oil
Farmers win, the consumer at the pump wins, our nation's relief from the grip of the oil cartels wins, even the Florida and Gulf coast sugar industry wins if we follow and expand a tested and successful model.
Where’s that model? Quick, show me. That sounds like a national headline instead of a Saturday ho-hum article buried in the Washington Post.
Yeah, the model is Brazil.
Brazil? Isn’t that in South America, that long, skinny country that covers almost the entire west coast? No, that’s Chile. Brazil is the big hunk of the country with a seashore on the east coast, home to the Amazon rain forest and Rio de Janeiro. Enough geography . . .
Brazil is a sugar-cane growing country and the cane industry fluctuates wildly depending on world sugar markets, plus the fact that it’s an absolutely terrible place for people to work. That, plus the high prices and diminishing oil resources worldwide, plus the fact that cane (along with corn, soybeans, beets, cornstalks and grass) is an easy et…