So what?

My 8 reasons we need to do the same

• no need to go to war in the middle east to preserve the remaining oil supply.
• no need to send billions of dollars to other countries.
• less money to find its way to terror groups
• more jobs here at home.
• a greener earth with less pollution that hurts the lungs of those with pulmonary illnesses.
• less emission of greenhouse gases resulting in less global warming.
• no possible way to pollute the oceans with oil spills.
• no significant cost per unit differences. Pure ethanol in brazil is about $2 a gallon producing 30% (ish) less energy requiring 30% more fuel consumed.
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  Editorial
  My opinion, ”Brazil’s energy independence initiative though born of military inspiration soon included political and economic involvement. Their progress has not been smooth. History shows some outside economic factors interfering with growth during its 30-year development, mainly when oil prices dip. Nevertheless, look where they are now, free from the chains of OPEC. I think it provides lessons for a domestic ethanol program that is already on pace to free us from the yoke of foreign oil dependency as well.”

Brazil's biofuel (From bbc.co.uk and other sources)
Some facts ‘n’ figures

In the mid-1980s - before any other country even thought of the idea - Brazil succeeded in mass-producing biofuel for motor vehicles: alcohol, derived from its plentiful supplies of sugar-cane.
Differently-powered cars were actually in the majority on Brazil's roads at the time, marking a major technological feat.
But the programme that had put the country so far ahead was very nearly consigned to history when oil prices slid back from the high levels seen in the 1970s.
Alcohol-powered cars fell out of favour and languished in obscurity until two years ago, when production picked up again in a big way.
Now Brazilians are flocking to buy cars that give them the chance to mix and match alcohol with regular fuel - and conventional motor vehicles that run purely on petrol are looking old-fashioned once again.
Military-inspired
Brazil's state-run alcohol fuel programme was set up for patriotic, not financial or environmental reasons.
The military government that ran the country from 1964 to 1985 wanted to reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern petroleum during the 1970s oil crisis.

The technology was far from new, having been around since the 1920s, but no country had employed it on such a scale.
Under the Pro-Alcohol programme, farmers were paid generous subsidies to grow sugar-cane, from which ethanol was produced.
The price at the pump was also subsidised to make the new fuel cheaper than petrol, while the motor industry turned out increasing numbers of vehicles adapted to burn pure ethanol.
As a result, in 1985 and 1986, more than 75% of all motor vehicles produced in Brazil - and more than 90% of cars - were designed for alcohol consumption.
Even a man as closely linked with the oil industry as President George W Bush is now spreading the message that one day we may be growing our fuel instead of digging it out of the ground.
"An interesting opportunity, not only for here but for the rest of the world, is biodiesel, a fuel developed from soybeans," he said in June last year.