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Headlines : EnvironmentBurdening Brazil With Biofuels
“Big Al” Gore, the pied piper of the CO2 centric global warming hypothesis has some of the world believing that there is now good and bad carbon dioxide.
Fossil fuel CO2, bad. Biofuel CO2, good? Food for fuel will help save the planet? For who?
There quite simply isn’t enough cropland on the planet to replace the oil and eat, but for now we’ll just sweep that little known fact under the rug and forge ahead with biofueling more waste.
George W. Bush has slid under the American environmentalist movement’s radar with these new energy deals to maintain the car culture and the “American way of life is not negotiable” stand touted by his father, George H. W. Bush at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
But the Brazilian public isn’t as so easily duped and knows the price they will pay if they lose this battle for power over principal, and the Monroe Doctrine remains in effect. NAFTA, CAFTA and …....
[Posted By GWHunta]Republished from Tompaine.com
President Bush is back in the United States, but he may still be hearing echoes of the protests he faced in Sao Paulo, Brazil on his recent trip to Latin America. Some of those echoes are still somewhat surprising: the protesters criticized not only the usual issues like the Iraq war, but also Bush’s new biofuels pact with Brazil’s President Luiz Lula da Silva.
As the leaders of the world’s two largest ethanol producers, the presidents share a common desire to see agricultural crops turned into fuel that they believe can help free us from our oil addiction. Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane is hailed as an energy-saving fuel source that creates as much as eight times as much energy as is needed to produce it and currently displaces nearly half of Brazil’s gasoline demand. So why not send more of it to the United States (perhaps making Brazil the Saudi Arabia of ethanol)?
The Brazilian protesters weren’t so sanguine about the prospects of a massive boom in ethanol production to meet demand in the United States.
Posted by GWHunta
Small town, working class from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 1990 went to work for the MDOC; the very forefront of the U.S. Prison / Industrial Complex. Learned there, the hard way, that if I wasn't one of them; "they" would be pit against me. ...
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