Looks like there will be a Sugar & Alcohol Economy, complete with home alcohol stills and a thriving moonshine trade. Rum will become a common drink, engines will be ruined with sugar by drunks pouring their liquor into the “gas tank” and people will quickly figure out that they can get drink off the vehicle fuel (some poisonings will be inevitable from impure alcohol).

I bet Brazil is already well into this process, let’s look there for a glimpse into a possible future.

Oh, if part of the net positive energy from sugar cane production goes into advanced irrigation methods, then cane could be grown on currently un-arable land. Even hydroponic cane is perhaps possible.

If Ethan gets rich off these ideas, he can buy me a tank of moonshine