Worldandnation: Ethanol: Is it the answer?:
by David Adams -- Oct 17, 2005
"But today Brazilian consumers are delighted to find themselves ahead of the times - and many first-world economies - as the country finally reaps the rewards of its ethanol revolution.
Because of decades developing alternative fuel, Brazil, a country larger than the continental United States with a population of 186-million, boasts an infrastructure of 29,000 gas stations that offer everything from 25 percent ethanol-blended gasoline, known as 'gasohol,' to straight alcool (pronounced alko-oll).
This means huge savings for Brazilian consumers. Alcohol costs on average about half of gasoline, selling for barely $2 a gallon. Car buyers also receive an annual tax credit on alcohol cars, which have cleaner tailpipe emissions.
Brazil is now almost impervious to the instability of gasoline supplies that has bedeviled the United States in the aftermath of two massive hurricanes and the war in Iraq."
Monday, October 17, 2005
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