Re: Brinks To Pay Fine For Emissions Violations

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> We as a country should follow Brazil's example. I heard it is
> >> illegal to purchase any gasoline powered vehicle there now. Brazil
> >> now uses 100 percent biodiesel and ethanol powered vehicles.
> >
> > Brazil is only able to do that through massive government financing
> > and the fact it is far easier to get ethanol from sugar cane than
> > it is from corn
>
> Whereas the US government gives massive monetary saupport to
> agri-business, much of it going to corn producers.  One problem in
> deriving ethanol from corn is that corn prices are artificially
> inflated.

True and yet they now pay to keep ethanol prices artificially low

>
> > There isn't enough farmland to produce enough ethanol for the US
> > much less the rest of the world
>
> There is enough sugar cane in Brazil and other tropical countries to
> provide ethanol for the much of the US needs.  It is kept out of the
> USA by high duty fees which agribusiness lobbiests sought to keep
> away competition for the US' sugar market.

Brazil cannot export more than a fraction of our needs, there isn't enough
farmland there or here, even the producers here recognize ethanol is a
stop-gap measure