This whole effort toward alcohol production for fuel would not even be brought up if it had to depend on alcohol as the energy source for producing more alcohol. But no, it counts on oil based products for producing the sugar cane and then for distilling it.

This will just help distillers and sugar producers at the expense of more oil imports. They will also have the ability to add untaxed alcohol to the general economy by subterfuge.

It is possible for this alcohol approach to be viable IF the distillation were done via solar power, but you can bet that this is not the case. Oil-based products will provide the fuel. This is just another effort to rip off people.