US and Brazil Seek Ethanol Partnership
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Posted by Cindy Zimmerman – February 8th, 2007
Officials from the world’s two largest ethanol producers, the United States and Brazil, have been meeting this week to discuss the possibility of a new “energy partnership.”
According to a Washington Post report, U.S. officials said they expect to sign accords within a year that would promote technology-sharing with Brazil and encourage more Latin American neighbors to become biofuel producers and consumers.
“It’s clearly in our interests — Brazil’s and the United States’s — that we expand the global market for biofuels, particularly ethanol, and that it become a global commodity of sorts,” said R. Nicholas Burns, the U.S. undersecretary of state, who led discussions with Brazilian government officials on Wednesday.
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DANIEL M MARTIN
Tt is great,it is only fair we import ethanol from Brazil to replace gasoline use.It would save us money,create strategic alliance in this side of the world,help Brazil develop and reduce emitions while our own ethanol production catches up
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