There's just one problem: Despite Washington's mandates — which fall on refiners and
producers of motor fuels like ExxonMobil — cellulosic
ethanol doesn't actually
exist in any meaningful volumes.
Brazil is attractive to Amyris because it is the second - largest
producer of
ethanol in the world; while the company will make hydrocarbons, not
ethanol, it will use the country's
existing infrastructure for growing and processing sugarcane.