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Sugar cane isn't grown very heavily in the U.S. meaning we'd be dependent on countries like China, Brazil, India etc...and of course, this type of dependence is not a good thing. If we shift more of our crops towards grwoing sugar cane, we'd still have the rise in food prices like we're seeing now because then we'd have sugar cane competing against wheat for land. If this method ever becomes popular, I hope they will contain this modified bacteria..my concern is that if it ever gets loose, it might be able to destroy crops that are high in sugar and turn them into cesspools of this fuel... I dont' think this would be of help to the global warming problem because the rate at which we emit greenhouse gasses would be faster than the rate at which the sugar cane plants could absorb them. Lastly, this huge growth in sugar cane production could make worse, the already low human rights standards in poorer counties.