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Axis of Ethanol
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | 8 Feb 2007 | Staff

Posted on 02/08/2007 7:35:28 PM PST by Kitten Festival

Energy: Could lowly switch grass mow down the petropower tyranny of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez? A U.S.-Brazil ethanol pact signed this week may supply the fuel to do just that.

Chavez's hostile anti-American dictatorship grows worse as his oil earnings pile up. With the U.S. as his best customer, buying about a quarter, or 1.1 million barrels, of Venezuelan crude oil each day, the bitter coda is that every barrel we buy fuels his anti-U.S. actions.

These range from crazed speeches to colonial acquisitions like Bolivia to rogue-state alliances with Iran and Zimbabwe to menacing moves against neighbors like Dominica, Guyana and Colombia with $4 billion in weapons purchases.

High oil prices, low supply and his own expropriations of foreign oil partners in Venezuela only increase Chavez's oil cash and clout. The U.S. has been largely helpless, because it has few alternatives to buying Venezuelan crude.

But a new deal announced with Brazil to pool ethanol technology and produce greater quantities of ethanol in both countries could help. ...

The ultimate aim of the ethanol deal is to create a commodity market. This could give every country in the region alternatives for energy buying. In turn, it will undercut Chavez's monopoly and abusive influence.

Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, who flew to Brazil to iron out the deal, made no secret of that. "Energy has tended to distort the power of some of the states we find to be negative in the world — Venezuela, Iran," said Burns, quoted in the Washington Post. "And so the more we can diversify our energy sources and depend less on oil, the better off we will be."

...this signals an impressive new U.S. diplomatic offensive

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: brazil; chavez; corn; cornsqueezins; energy; ethanol; hugoping; oil; renewableenergy; switchgrass
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To: SouthTexas

Yeah... Alla that pot smokin and government schools got a majority really really ripe for Gore's fearmongering that makes Y2K look insignificant as a hoax!!!


41 posted on 02/08/2007 8:23:15 PM PST by SierraWasp (Grayout Davis, Gang-Green Schwartzenegger... Recycled Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown!!! Watch for it in 4!!!)
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To: SouthTexas
Brazil also has found a new offshore oil reserve.

Yes, Brazil road to energy indepences was primarily from producing its petroleum resources. A lesson we would do good to learn.


42 posted on 02/08/2007 8:26:42 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: mylife
No (bleepin) way!!!

They likes crunchy corn ones, not them floppy, soft, limp, mushy, lame flour ones!!! (grin)

43 posted on 02/08/2007 8:26:48 PM PST by SierraWasp (Grayout Davis, Gang-Green Schwartzenegger... Recycled Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown!!! Watch for it in 4!!!)
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To: Kitten Festival

I dont know about well said, but Ive learned to pay attention to undersecratary Burns. He's alway in the fray


44 posted on 02/08/2007 8:27:30 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: SierraWasp

I try and not listen to el Gordo, but occasionally they'll sneak one in on me. :)


45 posted on 02/08/2007 8:28:27 PM PST by SouthTexas (It's snowing in Texas, where is OUR global warming?)
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To: Kitten Festival

Wull, what's this business about "switch grass?" Have they discovered some hetro marijuana that can switch to homo marijuana on a dime, and then back again??? What???


46 posted on 02/08/2007 8:29:39 PM PST by SierraWasp (Grayout Davis, Gang-Green Schwartzenegger... Recycled Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown!!! Watch for it in 4!!!)
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To: thackney

Hey thackney!

Your right, we need to develop OUR oil.
Sometimes I think we are just holding ours in reserve


47 posted on 02/08/2007 8:29:53 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Yeah, I guess so. I had always thought he was 'what's wrong with the state department' but I am not so sure of that now, this initiative is something I think I agree with because it's dangerous to Chavez. We will know for sure in a couple of days when Chavez starts screaming and yelling about it. I think that will happen and when it comes, there will be sulfur coming out of Caracas.


48 posted on 02/08/2007 8:30:24 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I tried cramp bark when I was a kid! I could lift a car!


49 posted on 02/08/2007 8:31:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Saturday, February 3, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: thackney

Now you can't go confusing the argument with facts! ;)


50 posted on 02/08/2007 8:31:09 PM PST by SouthTexas (It's snowing in Texas, where is OUR global warming?)
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To: Kitten Festival; xcamel; SierraWasp
There's something here for everybody.

Butanol -- a four carbon alcohol. More compatible with pipelines and engine parts. Possibly higher production efficiencies than ethanol.

But you'll have to sort through it on your own.

51 posted on 02/08/2007 8:33:32 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Sign says, "No dogs allowed -- except seeing-eye dogs" Why don't they put that sign down lower?)
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To: thackney
Aw Geeze! I'm sure glad you showed up here with some graphic actual factual information!!!

I was tryin to think or your handle so's I could ping ya... but thank goodness, here ya came!!!

I guess that says somethin fer bumpin the tread to the top to git the appropriate attenshun!!!

52 posted on 02/08/2007 8:33:43 PM PST by SierraWasp (Grayout Davis, Gang-Green Schwartzenegger... Recycled Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown!!! Watch for it in 4!!!)
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To: Kitten Festival

More nukes and less kooks...


53 posted on 02/08/2007 8:34:46 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: Kitten Festival; thackney
there will be sulfur coming out of Caracas.

I think thats the key here. Venuzuelas oil is heavy and sulphorous.

thackney? can you enlighten us as to the "grade" of venuzuelan oil?

54 posted on 02/08/2007 8:34:57 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: NicknamedBob

Screw it! Let's dig fer OIL!!! (just to drive Gore insane!)(plus, it'll make his big oil holdings worth less!)


55 posted on 02/08/2007 8:35:53 PM PST by SierraWasp (Grayout Davis, Gang-Green Schwartzenegger... Recycled Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown!!! Watch for it in 4!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

The deal on switch grass is that theyve isolated an enzyme that termites have that breaks down celulose and allows it to be processed into ethanol.


56 posted on 02/08/2007 8:38:37 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: right-wingin_It; Kitten Festival; Irish_Thatcherite
"It might also be possible to do this on the ocean surface somehow ..."

Ooh, I like this idea!

A "sea-snake" power production facility, with enclosed algae ponds soaking up sunshine and producing biodiesel.

What's not to like?

57 posted on 02/08/2007 8:39:07 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Sign says, "No dogs allowed -- except seeing-eye dogs" Why don't they put that sign down lower?)
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To: NicknamedBob

Right on!


58 posted on 02/08/2007 8:41:28 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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To: SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach
"I tried cramp bark when I was a kid! I could lift a car!"

Sounds interesting... Do tell, please.

Wait! Is that what a dog does when he has indigestion???

59 posted on 02/08/2007 8:41:43 PM PST by SierraWasp (Grayout Davis, Gang-Green Schwartzenegger... Recycled Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown!!! Watch for it in 4!!!)
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To: mylife

What? You mean the termites are eatin GRASS nowadays??? What's up with that??? You gotta be kiddin me, right???


60 posted on 02/08/2007 8:44:01 PM PST by SierraWasp (Grayout Davis, Gang-Green Schwartzenegger... Recycled Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown!!! Watch for it in 4!!!)
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