Comments for After Meeting Bush, Brazil's Lula Says He's Going Back Home Empty Handed at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:21:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8105/54/#pc_8411 I was not aware that 10% of US motor fuel is now ethanol. I have avoided Shell for that reason. Awful news. Anyone who has worked on US jetskis and other equipment here in the Amazon knows what gasolhol can do to mess things up. High humidity, alky sucks in moisture, and they are run infrequently. In the drags in the states guys learned early on how to deal with alcohol. Here they nickel plate parts, use plastic, isolate pot metal from the mix etc. We just bought a new Brazilian Flex VW, most of the problems have been sorted out. Ethanol is "Quem não tem cachorro caça com gato" set to music. The future is Diesel more than spark-ignition alky/gas. In northern Alberta, three companies are producing a barrel of crude oil from oil sands for $20.00 a barrel. Soon they will be up to 3 million barrels a day. Alcohol can´t compete with that. Dirty little secret: Peak Oil won´t be with us until 2050 at the earliest. SO alcohol is interesting, always good to hedge one´s bets, but not a solution. Can´t crack ethanol to produce road tar, lube oil, gas, Diesel, naptha, thinner, etc., etc. It´s coming of age too soon. 2045 might have been better. - Ric Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:26:11 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8105/54/#pc_8399 Simple confirmation that the article with the headline : With Bush, This Week, Brazil's Lula Will Be Helper not Beggar, Fox Not Sheep .......was simply a hope, a fairy tale for Brazilians ! Fact being that Lula was on his knee when asking and on his knee when he went back home !!!!!!!!! As I said, if you find normal that the USA should eliminate the import tax on ethanol since you "apparently" can produce cheaper, then ALL you cars plants should be closed down, transferred to China, and then the cars should be imported......TAX FREE.....from China. While for the time being not only 1 car is Brazilian, but worse, you charge 100 % import tax for foreign made cars !!!!!!!! You cant be right.....both ways ! Chose 1 and stick with it !!!!!!! But trying to cheat and hide the reality is a Brazilian.......SPECIALTY.....for which you truly excel !!!!!!! Enjoyx and swim into your perpetual contradictions ! - ch.c. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:03:43 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8105/54/#pc_8395 Lula is empty handed and the Brazilian people are hopeless. Lula failed to deliver what he promised so many times during his long journey to the presidency. Once in power he forgot his origin and his ideology. Now is just another politician without moral, with out leadership and without legitimacy. He is just willing to serve and please the powerful hoping to get their favors. LULA IS A EMPTY PERSON - Pedro Soto Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:21:31 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8105/54/#pc_8378 I wouldn't be too sure about "nothing". I live in the US and my fishing boat's motors are now highly susceptible to Ethynol gas because of the way Ethynol mixes with water. -since June 2006 10% of all US fuel is Ethynol. Clogged lines, tank problems. A lot of motors and fuel tanks on boats haven't been engineered for this fuel yet and it doesn't look like they will be anytime soon! But since car tanks are self contained, it's not a problem to keep out the moisture. For all the water corn needs for growth, this fuel is not the answer, just another option which will not work. Maybe solar again? - easy Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:19:50 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8105/54/#pc_8369 "If someone asks me, 'What are you taking back to Brazil,' I would say nothing. I'm not taking anything back to Brazil," Sobel had the same problem. - Professor Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:18:43 +0100