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To: carranza2 who wrote (23115)	9/1/2002 8:24:02 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

One should not play with the people who put money into one's country. I always say this to the Brazilians, who love to thumb their noses at the foreign investors. Always welcome the money. Do not say you are not going to pay, do not try to "nationalize" or freeze their assets. Don't increase investors' perception of risk. It doesn't work. Then I show as a proof the US which are rich because they have always did what I see as the most beneficial for any country's economy. Now the US is forgetting that and want to thumb their noses to foreign capital 'parked' in the US. Do not go Brazil's way, it is not nice, I can tell you!

To: carranza2 who wrote (23115)	9/1/2002 8:40:30 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

The clever way to extricate the Americans out of the Arabs grip on their balls is this: Add 20% of alcohol to gasoline. Imagine the Moslems who are against alcohol, having the stuff diminishing the market for crude! The Brazilians have the technology, having had unleaded gas all the time just by adding this percentual of sugar cane alcohol to gasoline. Don't worry there is about 20 years of experience on building the right car engines and components. The technology is there. It is just to exploit. Just send to Brazil the money you're sending to the Arabs. But it can't be done because this will screw BP, Exxon and Shell. And their lobby is such that otherwise it would have had been done already.