Skip to comments.
Brazil Fights Oil Prices With Alcohol
Christian Science Monitor ^
| October 7, 2005
| Andrew Downie
Posted on 10/08/2005 9:47:27 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Drivers are fighting rising gasoline prices by buying "flex" or "flexible fuel" cars that slurp more alcohol.
Alcohol made from sugar cane is becoming the fuel of choice in Brazil, and other countries - so much so that global sugar prices hit a seven-year high this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: alternativefuel; brazil; gasprices
To: Clintonfatigued
IMO alcohol is not the way to go. Prefer Oil Sands or Coal Gasification, both of which are, due to the steep rise in Oil, economical and profitable. Even better, all US needs can be met with existing Domestic sources and their availability is not dependent upon the vagaries of weather, Gov't subsidies or asset utilization constraints in the form of the enormous amounts of land, transport and processing assets required for alcohol production.
2
posted on
10/08/2005 9:54:07 AM PDT
by
drt1
To: Clintonfatigued
Hmmmmmmmm? Does OPEC like sugar in their coffee or tea? This may come in handy?
3
posted on
10/08/2005 10:05:32 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Frodo failed, Hillary now has the Ring)
To: Clintonfatigued; Caipirabob; Cacique
To: drt1
The carbohydrate energy economy (using plant matter for energy) stopped making sense 150 years ago. Why libs and third worlders keep pushing this is beyond me. Why would they want to cut down rain forests to grow sugar cane to replace oil or coal? We would have to use every arable acre to supplant the fossil fuel supply. Biomass energy is an environmental disaster.
5
posted on
10/08/2005 10:28:07 AM PDT
by
BigBobber
To: Clintonfatigued
so much so that global sugar prices hit a seven-year high this week. Does this mean we can stop subsidizing sugar producers?
6
posted on
10/08/2005 11:35:55 AM PDT
by
No Longer Free State
(No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect.)
To: wagglebee; A. Pole; Willie Green; ambrose
Hopefully this posting can generate ideas and suggestions from well-informed conservatives on how to deal with the price of gasoline.
7
posted on
10/08/2005 11:48:01 AM PDT
by
Clintonfatigued
(Jeanine Pirro for Senate, Hillary Clinton for Weight Watchers Spokeswoman)
To: Clintonfatigued
That's what I did Saturday night. Instead of going out and burning gas I stayed home and got drunk.
To: Clintonfatigued
Didn't Brazil already have alcohol-burning Autos/Public transport in the L70s-E80s?
9
posted on
10/08/2005 2:21:58 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: Clintonfatigued; RightWhale
Hopefully this posting can generate ideas and suggestions from well-informed conservatives on how to deal with the price of gasoline.Peak Oil will bring about a wide variety of alternative fuel sources INCLUDING ethanol, coal gasification, tar sands, shale oil, etc. etc. (not to mention electric mass-transit systems with energy supplied by nuclear power plants).
What will NOT happen is a worldwide, one-fuel-is-best-for-everybody's-car petroleum substitute like Dubya's bogus "hydrogen" economy.
To: Clintonfatigued
Most major advances in this regard will occur or catch on in the third world.
High oil prices hurt the US, but not enough to get us off our butts and change the way we presently do things. We will spend a decade and a trillion dollars creating a new technology rather than create a $50.00 carburetor attachment that can be attached to existing vehicle technologies.
Biomass will never replace fossil fuels but offer viable alternatives for the time being, especially in places where everything grows rapidly.
11
posted on
10/08/2005 2:51:10 PM PDT
by
mmercier
(raising swords for maidens fair)
To: skinkinthegrass
VW Bugs made in Brazil long after VW Bugs were no longer made in Germany ran on alcohol.
12
posted on
10/08/2005 4:08:38 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: Clintonfatigued
This has been going on for years, years I tells ya. When my late father was working in Brazil (early 90's), he'd bring back 2LT bottles of almost pure alcohol. When there, he married a beautiful but feisty woman who made this drink with sugar, that booze and some other stuff that was pretty good.
13
posted on
10/08/2005 4:23:44 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: RightWhale
VW Bugs made in Brazil long after VW Bugs were no longer made in Germany ran on alcohol ...Thanks, for the reply. Thats' what I Rem., back in the early years, (when MSM News Magazine Shows, actually had News...not hit pieces :)...I forgot they were only WV Beetles.
14
posted on
10/08/2005 5:30:29 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson