From a DOE website:

"While the manufacture of crop fertilizers and extraction and purification of ethanol can be highly energy intensive, this is not the case in Brazil, because much of the work is done by hand."

Who in the USA is willing to work a farm or refinery (sorry, distillery?), completely or mostly "by hand", for what is probably less-than-minimum wage?

Replaced my poor, beloved 2005 with a 2007 when a tree fell on it.