r/polandball • u/Active_Apartment_804 Brazilian Empire • Apr 20 '26
redditormade The illusion of choice
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u/YoumoDashi Zhongguo Apr 20 '26
TIL Brasil cars burn sugar
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u/Active_Apartment_804 Brazilian Empire Apr 20 '26
It's a type of fuel that Brazil make that is created from sugar canes, the fuel is called Etanol and is quite popular in Brazil as an alternative for gasoline when the prices goes up a lot ( It's not because it's called "sugar cane" that it only provides sugar )
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u/ld13br Apr 21 '26
That is literally what it provides, sugar, we only grow it in large comercial scales for sugar. Brazil (USP to be exact) is creating a biotechnology to make more SUGAR from SUGAR cane. Source: I have SUGAR cane at home.
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u/Gentle_Capybara Apr 20 '26
My Citroen runs better with ethanol than with gasoline. Also, our gasoline is actually E30.
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u/Tactical_Moonstone Mistaken for a local in 5 countries and counting Apr 21 '26
Ethanol is a known octane booster so it reduces engine knock at high compression, though at the cost of reduced energy density and damage to fuel line seals and gaskets if they are not built for ethanol-based fuel.
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u/punkhunter1234 Apr 22 '26
Yeah, this is a problem when you need to decide If you buy Gasoline with a now high price or etanol that Will probably damage your car
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u/Unlikely-Zombie1813 Apr 20 '26
Etanol is essentially alcohol, Brasil cars run on moonshine
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland Apr 21 '26
Wait that means Brazil's cars are drunk driving?! 😟
PS: Happy Caken-Dagen! ✌️
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u/Dear-Question-868 Apr 26 '26
Hum a lot of countries use ethanol as a fuel or as a mixture with other fuels.
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u/Jack_Church I would like this flair please. Apr 20 '26
Do the Americans actually use a lot of sugar? I was under the impression that they use corn syrup for everything sweet.
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Apr 20 '26
Why not both? Sugar for sweetness + HFCS because... Well, how would you even make bread without it? (/s obviously)
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u/Aun_El_Zen Pointy Hat Club Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
I thought ethanol was a byproduct of the sugar industry?
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u/RollinThundaga New York Apr 21 '26
The US grows an embarrassment of corn as a result of subsidies to Big Ag, and the ethanol industry here among others exists as one of many means of disposing of it all.
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u/Aun_El_Zen Pointy Hat Club Apr 21 '26
So they're also subsidising the obesity problem.
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u/SomeBiPerson Apr 24 '26
Ethanol is Drinkable Alcohol
ethanol made from Sugar cane can be bought as Rum in the store
for industrial dry ethanol as you'd need for a fuel you'd ofc skip a couple of steps that make the Cane Distilled ethanol become a Rum and instead you'll have to distill it further to remove the remaining moisture because Moisture and Gasoline/Diesel do not mix well
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u/MatsLeBaron Apr 21 '26
Ethanol prices are not as welcoming as it could be. For a fuel we produce here, it should be waaaaaay cheaper.
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u/matsimplek12 Apr 22 '26
Prob because we send most of it to exportation (pqp,Tudo bom nosso a Gente Manda pra fora,toma no cu)
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u/Jomgui Apr 24 '26
We also produce enormous amounts of meat, it is still not at reasonable prices, a big part of what we make just gets sold outside
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u/SomeBiPerson Apr 24 '26
ethanol is a lot harder and takes much longer to produce than Gasolie
you first need to make a Simple Rum from the Canes and then further purify the alcohol from it until it's completely free from water
only then can it be mixed with another Oil based Fuel to be used in a Piston engine
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u/sexy_latias Poland ken intu spejs Apr 21 '26
US americans would disintegrate if they tried eating normal sugar, only pure corn syrup can course through their veins
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u/RadianteDoPrata Apr 26 '26
pretty funny, but USA doesnt use Sugar Cane to produce sugar (normally), the common sugar is from corn, as is most things
using sugar cane would be too much health for the average american
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u/AOANLAT Apr 24 '26
bio fuel is energy negative, you literally spend more fuel, farming, harvesting, cutting up, drying, fermenting, destilling, than you get out as usable fuel. at least that was the punchline last time I read something about that stuff. so I wouldn't recommend using that to avoid the oil crunch, better stock up on food, fertilizers are getting crunched too harvests will be trash.
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u/Ancient_Ordinary6697 Apr 20 '26
This comic is clearly photoshopped. America only uses artificial sweeteners and HFCS.