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To: elmatador who wrote (87778)	10/18/2007 1:44:07 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

you wrote with the commodity exporting of Brazil. "A lack of rail, road and port facilities is hampering expansion of exports of iron ore, soybean, sugar and other commodities. Yes, people forget that getting that commodity out of the ground or into a warehouse is only part of the real expense, you have to get it to the people who want it. This is the part of the equation people forget when people tell me that oil was so much cheaper to obtain in the past, they forget that back when it flowed right out of the ground here in the US, you had primitive and highly inefficient means to get it to where it could be used and highly inefficient machines using it. The gains in efficiency on the refining, distribution and use side have more than made up for the increase in energy needed to extract it over the last few hundred years.