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President Clinton headed to Ethanol Summit 2009 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has snagged former U.S. President Bill Clinton to be a speaker at the upcoming Ethanol Summit 2009. The Summit takes place in Sao Paulo, Brazil in early June. Part of Clinton's post-White House life has been running the William J. Clinton ...

VIDEO: 60 Minutes challenges Chevron on Ecuador oil mess 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Chevron, America's third largest company, may be asked to pay up to $27 billion in damages in a lawsuit arising from oil-drilling related pollution in an Ecuadorian portion of the Amazon rain forest. The damage is the result of 23 years of oil extraction by Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001, and ...

VIDEO: $6,500 Salamandra Lexion launches in Colombia 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Billed as the most affordable ecological vehicle in the world, the wraps came off the $6,500 Salamandra Lexion earlier this month to reveal the three-wheeled wonder you see pictured above. Calling Colombia home, the folks behind Salamandra hope to offer people a green choice they can afford while ...

Nissan adds flex-fuel version of the Versa ... in Brazil 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

In Brazil, ethanol tends to be the fuel of choice over gasoline thanks to favorable pricing and the local sugar cane feedstock. As a result most of the cars available there are offered in flex fuel variants that aren't for sale anywhere else in the world. Such is the case with the latest edition of ...

Nissan launches first flexfuel model in Brazil 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Click on image for a gallery of the Nissan Livina The fact that one of the most important automakers in Brazil didn't offer a flex-fuel vehicle there is quite a surprising fact. Nissan is fixing this by offering the Nissan Livina, a compact 5-seat van (think Mazda5), with a flex-fuel engine ...

Brazilian president asks Obama to lower ethanol tariff 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Even though some headlines were dominated by Brazilian economic news, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's visit to the U.S. and his meeting with President Obama over the weekend also dealt with the ethanol industry. The big biofuel news from Silva's visit was a call to end U.S. tariffs on his ...

Honda to sell world's 1st bike with bio-ethanol mixed fuel 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

There are tons of flex-fuel automobiles in the world, both in the United States and abroad. Interestingly, though, before today there weren't any flex-fuel motorcycles in existence. Honda has just rectified that little oversight with its new CG150 Titan Mix, a model that will be available in ...

Brazil having a hard time selling its biodiesel in Europe 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Brazil's President Inázio Lula da Silva visited Europe not long ago and he promoted the benefits of Brazilian biodiesel in France and Spain. This might have seemed like a good idea, if it weren't for the fact that Spain's biggest oil company, Repsol, had just frozen the construction of a new ...

Argentina motorbike manufacturer launches CNG bike 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Argentina's most important motorbike manufacturer, Zanella, has announced its first factory-installed CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) powered bike. The bike, which is a converted RX150 model, has 150 cc displacement and the conversion adds two tanks of gas for a range of approximately 200 kilometers ...

Bollor courts Evo Morales and Bolivia's lithium 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

French industry giant Group Bolloré, which we're familar with for their involvement with Pininfarina in a handful of interesting electric car projects, announced it has contacted Bolivian President Evo Morales to secure a supply of lithium in order to produce advanced batteries. Negotiations ...

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