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To: Snowshoe who wrote (9236)	9/12/2006 6:21:03 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217556

"get a job as Brazil's official ethanol spokesman"? Uhm, you don't you know Brazil. I would need to have a lot of friends. Which I don't. Then supposed I would go for it: I would approach the ethanol industry with my ideas. They'd say they'd think about. Then next week, they would steal the ideas and you would be seeing and reading a young man with gel in his hair with good suit as spokesman for ethanol. You would ask who's this guy, Elmat? Then I would seek information and I'd discover he would be the son, nephew or whatever of some well connected person. So I prefer to talk about ethanol to my friends here. Why? Brazil will be doing well in the next decades not because there has been significant changes in the country that made it more competitive than it was before. It is just the demographic window of several countries happening at once and that's benefiting the country's industries in which it is competitive: Divided into three major segments: semi-manufactured: skins and leather (200 million cows' herd and biggest beef exporter may convince you that there's a lot of leather being produced. soy meal for feed stock. Raw sugar. unrefined soy oil. Frozen orange juice Manufactured: electrical motors, pumps, compressors, auto parts, autos, airplanes, footwear. Basic products: corn, Soya, coffee (all that stuff in grain) iron ore, tobacco in leaves, beef, pork meat, chicken meat, To that it will be added ethanol. Brazil says will more than double ethanol exports by 2010 Message 22804084 Beyond being the farms and mines of the world, Brazil can't do much. Among this 186million population, which is perhaps 96 million economic active, you would have 6 million in condition of working in a truly modern economy. Very low level of basic education here. So we continue to be a country that employs lots of people in labor intensive sectors and those sectors are the ones we are competitive. As a result the country is, naturally, settling to participate in the world economy in which it can employ the other 90 million that can't work in a modern economy and compete with the US, Europe and Japan. Why the US and Brazil don't reach an agreement in trade? Because Brazil don't open the services market to the US companies and refuses to open agribusiness to Brazil. Brazil service sector would be trounced by the US in services: Insurance, construction, banking, government tender...

To: Snowshoe who wrote (9236)	9/12/2006 6:25:44 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217556

Friday I will fly there. Then, as a result of that export boom of the stuff of the posting below, Brazil will be doing very well. In the next five years my real estate investment giving me a nice return.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (9236)	9/12/2006 6:28:51 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217556

Brazilian ethanol exports may grow ``exponentially'' on demand from Japan should the country implement plans to promote blended fuel, said Paulo Roberto Costa, refining chief at Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Brazil Ethanol Exports May Soar on Demand From Japan (Update1) By Jeb Blount Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian ethanol exports may grow ``exponentially'' on demand from Japan should the country implement plans to promote blended fuel, said Paulo Roberto Costa, refining chief at Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Japanese purchases of the fuel could rise to as much as 7 billion liters a year assuming the country moves ahead with plans to boost the ethanol content of regular gasoline to as much as 10 percent, Costa said. Brazil, the world's largest ethanol producer, exported 2.5 million liters last year, he said. Petrobras is seeking to increase ethanol exports to help the government expand agricultural output and prevent poor farmers from migrating to the cities. The government-controlled company also views ethanol as way to extend the life of its oil reserves and allow more time to develop other alternatives to petroleum, Costa said. ``Japan isn't alone in its interest in increasing ethanol imports,'' he told reporters at the Rio Oil & Gas conference in Rio de Janeiro. ``There's the U.S. and other countries in Asia that want to increase their use. Costa said that Petrobras' plans to spend as much as $600 building barges, pipelines and port facilities to move ethanol from refineries in Brazil's interior agricultural regions to ports on the Atlantic coast, are not aimed at creating an ethanol monopoly in the country. ``We simply want to use our expertise in trading and transport to become a player in the market,'' Costa said at the conference. ``Our participation will help farmers plant new fields of sugar-cane and build new ethanol refineries.'' To contact the reporter on this story: Jeb Blount in Rio de Janeiro at jblount@bloomberg.net Last Updated: September 12, 2006 14:00 EDT

To: Snowshoe who wrote (9236)	9/12/2006 6:30:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217556

ElM is going to Iran to build CDMA networks so Iranians can jump into mobile cyberspace like everyone else. Islamic Jihad and blowing up infidels is fun, but nowhere near as fun as being in cyberspace. It's an economic matter. While ElM says ethanol is a big deal, in fact, he is getting his money from mobile cyberspace, which sort of tells you just how important each thing is. Oh sure, he uses the hair gel excuse, but really, it's a cash flow world and the serious money is in CDMA phragmented photon cyberspace. CDMA RULZ, ethanol sucks, Islamic Jihad is so last-century. Mqurice