I have been to Brazil and that is not true. The whole country is just about oil independant when it comes to automobiles, and there are plenty of them. I am not saying our economy should be ethanol based, but dependance on oil abroad is what we have to curtail, as it feeds the jihad operating in the ME.
I am sorry, my previous post was in contention to the statement that people in Brazil cannot afford cars.
Didn't think so. W/o enormous tax AND production subsidies, Brazil's vaunted ''ethanol economy'' wouldn't even exist, let alone be a subject for discussion among petroilliterates.
Brazil is ''oil independant'' (sic) with regard to automobiles? Your ass. What absoute rubbish.
Any gov't can subsidise ANY nonsensical product for a period of time, in order to (try to) induce citizens to use the gov't-approved inferior product, but there's no exception in history to the intractable fact that THIS little game runs out, and in an historically very ugly fashion, p d q. Brazil consumes a very sizeable amount of crude and product, and produces relatively small amounts of any of these. Perhaps **close** to enough for their nation, but I rather doubt it, and in any case their consumption will outstrip production (if it hasn't already) in a very small number of years, like, say, 3-4.