Koolau
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I'm guessing (too lazy to search right now), that sugar cane provides plenty of feedstock to produce ethanol on the islands.
Oh, the other part of that is, by doing the refining, they get gasoline and diesel for cars/truck, and jet fuel (essentially Kerosene), and probably other useful stuff like asphalt for roads. This is apparently (if my assumptions are correct) more efficient than shipping in each product separately.
edit/add: curiosity overcame my laziness -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan...hanol is not presently manufactured in Hawaii.
-ERD50
Yes, virtually all the sugar cane is now gone from the Islands. I think there might still be a little on Maui, but it's on the way out. People don't like the pollution when they burn off the cane leaves. But the big issue is labor cost.
My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that sugar as a commodity is more valuable than using cane for ethanol. YMMV