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With Big Boost From Sugar Cane, Brazil Is Satisfying Its Fuel Needs

In economics, politics, science on 10 April 2006 with no comments

An interesting article on the viability of using ethanol fuel in Brazil:
The ethanol boom in Brazil, which took off at the start of the decade after a long slump, is not the first. The government introduced its original "Pro-Alcohol" program in 1975, after the first global energy crisis, and by the mid-1980's, more than three […]