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That's a pretty darned efficacious way to hear, all right.
But, regardless of how well you heard him, like everyone who espouses and promulgates the ethonol flim-flam, the shukkin' and jivin' socialist Brazillian ambassador was lyin' to yah.
Brazil is SOMEWHAT "energy independent" because its ongoing OIL exploration and drilling has paid off and it continues to bring new fields on line. And in any case its ethonol is from easy to grow in tropical Brazil [It's only grass, after all] cane sugar and American "farmers" and their failed lawyer and other quote-hired congressconmen are trying to scam us with the smoke and mirrors delusion that they and Archer Daniel Midlands can make it from grain for less than the 1.25 gallons of OIL and USD$3.00 a gallon it presently costs to produce.
Do you reckon if they could there wouldn't, in a New York minute, be genius Americans, like those at Exxon, say, already far and away the world's most innovative, creative, productive, industrious and entrepeurial, lining up construction crews and equipment to the horizon in every direction and building plants and tripping over one another to get their very special ethonol brew to market??
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