Generally, that is true BUT... In Brazil there is a huge manufacture of sugar with excess baggasse that is used to power sugar extraction/drying and provide he

Generally, that is true BUT... In Brazil there is a huge manufacture of sugar with excess baggasse that is used to power sugar extraction/drying and provide heat for alcohol distillation. There is a related industry of extracting leftover sugars, fermenting them, and making alcohol in rural agricultural regions, where the infrastructure for gasoline and diesel didn't exist 20-30 years ago. As a result, there is a lot of infrastructure for distributing locally produced 95% alcohol for transport (and you need to have specific gravity measured at the pump!). Unlike fertilized corn/grain alcohol from the midwest, this is not subsidized and still less expensive that gasoline in many parts of rural Brazil.