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Bill Clinton: don't destroy the forest to make ethanol

During the big Ethanol Summit 2009 down in Brazil this week, former President Clinton gave a bit of advice to that country's ethanol industry: don't destroy so much forest land just to make biofuel. Clinton said that "everybody" already knows that Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane is the most efficient biofuel in the world. The problem isn't getting the word out, but potential negative consequences of cutting down more forest in order to plant more crops. "The world would say, if we let Brazil help us solve our problem at the price of ... Read more →

President Clinton headed to Ethanol Summit 2009 Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

Nissan adds flex-fuel version of the Versa ... in Brazil Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Brazilian president asks Obama to lower ethanol tariff Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

A bit of history: Fiat 147, the first mass-produced ethanol car Xavier Navarro

Today, ethanol is not the most favored solution to oil dependency, but it was not always so frowned upon. Here's a car that deserves a place in the history of ethanol's growth. A Brazilian friend of ...

Fiat to launch new ethanol/diesel engine in Brazil 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

According to an article in The New Economic Times, Fiat is planning to launch a new ethanol-powered engine for the Brazilian market. Ethanol is widely used for fuel in Brazil and half of the country's sugar cane crops are currently used for its production. Fiat intends the motor to be run on fuel ...

Good sugarcane harvest means ethanol will continue to be cheap in Brazil 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Good news for Brazilians: the prices for ethanol has dropped 38 percent because of an increase in sugarcane production. Prices will continue its decrease, according to Júlio Maria Borges, an analyst at JOB Consultaría, even when the harvest finishes. There are two determining factors ...

Brazil forecasts record sugarcane and ethanol production 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Brazil's Companhia Nacional do Abastecimento is forecasting record levels for the 2007-2008 sugarcane production fuelled (pun intended) by the expansion of ethanol. According to this official organisation, this year's production of sugarcane will reach 547.2 million tons, 15.2 percent more than ...

Mines and energy minister defends Brazilian ethanol 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It seems that, although the EU will be buying massive quantities of raw materials to produce biofuels, Brazil prefers to sell the complete product. But this would be reacted by EUs concerns on biofuel production outside its borders (and how about the raw materials?) which would lead to barriers for ...

Brazil ethanol exports rising 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ethanol is good business for Brazil: in the last 6 years, the export sales of the biofuel have risen 176 percent, according to the CEPEA - Centro de Estudos Avançados em Economia Aplicada (Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics) in São Paulo. The growth was especially ...

Does Brazil have an ethanol "bubble"? And will it burst? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The headline on this story from Dow Jones Newswire - "Is Brazil's Ethanol Bubble Set To Cool?" - is a bit alarmist, don't you think? I think the news in the story - that Brazil's ethanol industry may soon slow down - is important, but I don't think it's fair to call a system that has been making ...

Revamped Barralcool, Brazil's first ethanol-biodiesel plant, opens in Sao Paolo 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva helped open his country's first ethanol and biodiesel plant Wednesday. The plant will make both biofuels from oilseeds and represents Brazil's shift into biofuels other than ethanol, which has dominated the country's fuel economy for decades. The ...

Japan and Brazil announce ethanol deal 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ever since the dawn of the Industrial Age, Japan has had to import oil, and Japan was hit hard by the 1973 Oil Crisis. Even though the renewable fuel market is growing worldwide, Japan is not any more energy independent because it has limited farmland on which to grow fuel crops. To secure a steady ...


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