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To: bentway who wrote (282573)	3/31/2006 3:05:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1574502

I can google. But since you seem knowledgeable about the program and appeared to be promoting/supporting it I figured you would know. This links isn't from a site I normally would link to, but it makes some arguments against wide spread use of ethanol as a fuel dailykos.com It doesn't however answer my questions about Brazil. distill.com is an informative link. It shows how using corn (which is the main crop used for ethanol production in the US) is far less efficent then Brazil's use of sugar cane. However it doesn't detail the subsidies and seems to downplay them as something to wory about. en.wikipedia.org has a lot of information. and links to en.wikipedia.org which is more directly on the topic, allthough not completly up to date ("the gasoline price in the world market is approximately US$ 1.05 per US gallon") According to peopleandplanet.net - "Brazil has phased out ethanol subsidies, by mid-2005 the private sector had committed $5.1 billion to investment in sugar mills and distilleries over the next five years. Thinking beyond its currently modest exports of ethanol, Brazil is discussing ethanol supply contracts with Japan and China. Producing ethanol at 60¢ per gallon, Brazil is in a strong competitive position in a world with $60-a-barrel oil." So apparently at least in Brazil ethanol can be a cost effective fuel, but that doesn't mean that it can be produced effecitvely without subsidies in the US. Maybe we should drop our barriers against Brazilian ehtanol and dump our subsidies for American ethanol. It would lower government spending a bit, and allow ethanol to be produced at lower cost for US use. Tim

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