Sugar Cane is the Sweetest Natural Resource

You may know already, but suger cane is Brazil's best natural resource. The region around Jau has lots of sugar cane, because it has a very sunny and a very predictable climate. Sugar cane is great for sugar of course. I've even had a drink called garrapa, where the juice is crushed/squeezed out of sugar cane stalks and combined with some lime and pineapple. It's really good. But, the other great thing about sugar cane is that is is easily converted to ethanol. The areas around Jau' have lots of ethanol plants. Ethanol in Brazil is half the price of gasoline, about $1.50 per gallon. All of the cars here are flex fuel too. It all adds up to 0-carbon emissions, since the sugar cane gets it's carbon from our atmosphere.