Anhydrous ethanol.

Well, we went to Brazil to meet Dr. Jose Goldemberg.

Who would have thought that a database entrepreneur could transform California with legislation?

And so, here's what's happened in Brazil.

The energy profit from these fuels is very low.

It is not subsidies to a few companies.

The original thought I had this must be ethanol.

George W. Bush We must continue investing in new methods of producing ethanol.

We know that corn ethanol has been the most succesful alternative we have ever developed, and I've been a champion of ethanol.

And so, on the right, you see gasoline emissions, the death rates of 2020.

We're focusing on now fourth generation fuels.

And I started playing with it more like a puzzle.

It's an absurd idea.

And we came up with Econol.

Which, of course, requires more energy to go out and get energy.

But Brazil's only 1.3 percent of the world's CO2 emission.

And they mandated that their new vehicles would be flex fuel compatible, right?

The level of carbon that it takes to produce ethanol is much higher than the actual saving that you get from burning ethanol.

And if you think of bioenergy, bioenergy isn't ethanol.

John McCain I'm all for ethanol, I strongly support it.

We're also combining cellulases, the enzymes that break down complex sugars into simple sugars and fermentation in the same cell for producing ethanol.

He told us that Brazil's government mandated that every gasoline station in the country would carry ethanol.

So, what's happened in Brazil is, they've replaced 40 percent of the gasoline consumed by their automotive fleet with ethanol.

You see, I accidentally cracked the flask that had contained our third enrichment culture, and as a result, we had to wipe down the incubator room with bleach and ethanol twice.

Generating ethanol from cellulose using mycelium as an intermediary and you gain all the benefits that I've described to you already.

And as you think about this stuff and what the implications of this are, we're going to start not just converting ethanol from corn with very high subsidies.

Like, at no concentration, even pure, you know, if you smelt pure ethanol, it doesn't smell of rotten eggs.

Or we could, of course, just get this little bit by continuing to import some Canadian and Mexican oil, or the ethanol the Brazilians would love to sell us.

And you will see, the amount of corn planted this year will be up dramatically from last year and there will be that much more habitat because we've decided ethanol is going to help us.

Also, CFC gas, which is the refrigerant gas, banned, is up to 20,000 times more potent global warmer than carbon dioxide, which accounts for 50 of global warming.

And I'm going to take you to a farm right now, because I used this idea to develop my understanding of the food system and what I learned, in fact, is that we are all, now, being manipulated by corn.