[mylife]

Brazil has a surplus of sugar cane based ethanol, it makes sense to buy that from brazil rather than produce corn based ethanol here which is far more expensive to produce and does effect food prices.

Ethanol is an ok stopgap measure to place a thumb in the eye of chavez and the mullas but it is not the long term solution

[SouthTexas]

Brazil also has found a new offshore oil reserve.

[xcamel]

It does neither, and using food for fuel is about as stupid as the human race can get, unless the whole scam is based on junk science to begin with, which makes it waaay beyond dumb.

[Taichi]

Ethanol is an OK stopgap measure to place a thumb in the eye of Chavez and the mullahs but it is not the long term solution


Exactly, it is not good enough but if we can use it in the short term, it might be worth the rise in food coast and extra pollution just to be able to tell some of these oil blackmailers where to go and how to get there and what to do when they've arrived.