In Brazil, nearly 50% of the cars are called flex cars, and most of the new ones are sold with a twist that permits a regular engine to run on ethanol.

These flex cars use power that is without using shrinking deposits of oil, but produced on the Earth's land from replaceable sugar cane.

Scientists in Brazil claim that as long as oil is above $32 per barrel then the ethanol produced is cost effective. And since oil prices will probably not ever come down again to that price the future looks bright for the sugar cane product of ethanol.

Raw sugar cane is significant to fuel efficiency. They claim to get 8 gallons of ethanol from sugar cane it takes 1 gallon of gas. With that ratio it makes it both environmentally friendly and cost effective.

At todays prices, it costs a simple ninety cents per gallon to produce ethanol from sugar cane. To use corn in our country to produce the ethanol it would cost approximately $1.10. Now compare that to the wholesale production price of $2.00 per gallon today for gas. This could lead to famers not being paid to not grow a corn crop from the U.S. government.

Today the average price of gasoline in the United States at $2.90 a gallon, and this is according to the U.S. Department of Energy. With the massive search in America for an alternative fuel we need something quick, environmentally friendly, and won't run out.

We could soon be growing our auto fuel instead of drilling in sensitive places for fossil fuel. Enviromentalists could possibly endorse this method.

The United States could follow the Brazilian model with just a couple adjustments:

1. The present flex cars would have to be sold in the United States. Since American automobile companies are already producing cars in Brazil that can run on ethanol, gasoline or the combination of the two it would just a matter of a mindset for us. The cars cost no more than gasoline-engine cars, they pollute less and are just as powerful as our regular autos. They claim this all is possible and can be adapted to many different situations and systems.

For example GM already has E85 autos and trucks being produced that operate on 85% ethanol but right now only about 650 ethanol stations are carrying this product.

2. Everyone in the country would have to get on board to persuade or pressure oil companies to spread ethanol to a great degree.

The government in Brazil forced stations to install ethanol pumps. We can see in the future oil companies may be changing to be known as alternative fuel companies. However, flex cars of alternative fuels are going to take place worldwide and it's about time.