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To: tejek who wrote (396564)	7/7/2008 2:46:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575763

Are you incapable of reading? I posted a recent Time magazine article showing you that the Brazilian biofuels industry is replacing rain forest and you proclaim it a lie I made up. Click on the link. Do you think I created the Time.com website? I repeat you are really making yourself look stupid today. But I'm enjoying it. ;>) Here's the Time link again you think is " a fabrication or an outright lie" by me: time.com The Clean Energy Scam Thursday, Mar. 27, 2008 By MICHAEL GRUNWALD A tiny sliver of transitional rain forest is surrounded by hectares of soybean fields in the Mato Grosso state, Brazil. John Lee / Aurora Select for TIME From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon. Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit to promote sustainable ranching on the Amazon frontier. "It's like witnessing a rape." .... This land rush is being accelerated by an unlikely source: biofuels. An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to record highs, which is spurring a dramatic expansion of Brazilian agriculture, which is invading the Amazon at an increasingly alarming rate. ....