Ethanol blends oil and food economies

(16.5 billion litres from sugar cane)

US4 billion
gallons 

(from corn)

China1 billion
gallons 

(from wheat and corn)

India500 million
gallons 

(from sugarcane)

France200 million
gallons (from sugar beets and wheat) GLOBAL ETHANOL PRODUCTION: 200430.5 billion litres 200533.0 billion litres 8% increase per year  Here is what the world has to say:
An unregulated biofuels boom in Brazil could mean the end of the Amazon rain forest and a vast savanna ecosystem known as the Cerrado, environmentalists warn.  Expanding large-scale agriculture to grow sugarcane, critics say, will worsen the loss of species diversity, water-quality problems, and habitat fragmentation in some of the world