The main way Brazil reached energy independance is the $10,000/an tax on every car makes cars too expensive for most.
Did you repeat that idea here in hopes that it would go over really big???
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.