Bush seeks ethanol alliance with Brazil, the world's renewable energy leader

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/04/business/LA-FIN-Brazil-US-Ethanol.php}

Just an hour's drive outside this traffic-choked metropolis where U.S. President George W. Bush kicks off a Latin American tour Thursday, sugar cane fields stretch for hundreds of miles (kilometers), providing the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian cars

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Brazil is the world's top exporter, though U.S. ethanol production still surpasses Brazil. But Brazil has an edge over the United States for future production because ethanol can be produced more cheaply with sugar cane than the corn used by U.S. farmers to make ethanol.

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"I think its Brazilian know how and American know how, there's a lot of cross fertilization that can take place," said Brian Dean, executive director of the Interamerican Ethanol Commission.

The commission counts among its directors Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the president's brother, as well as former Brazilian Agriculture Minister Roberto Rodrigues and Luiz Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank.

[jwirr]

1. So *ss is going to outsource ethanol production? There go the new

jobs alternative energy was going to create.

[XemaSab]

2. So Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing...

:rofl: