Small, cheap, safe and runs on ethanol? Call it Pomp??o

well, I'm talking about environmental institution, that work in environment and something like that. I work in environmental institution, that work in Carbon Market and CDM projects. I think love your description.... I want to know more about u... I think u are interesting... and nice..

What's obvious is you don't know that brazil has been running on mostly ethanol for a really long time and for them it is much cheaper. This is a cool solution to cut gas costs and traffic in brazil.

No. It's wrong. Here in Brazil the majority of the sugar cane plantations are located in State of S??o Paulo, where has no forest anymore, unless near the coast. And radmeister is right. We're not starving nowadays. Actually, the economy is growing and more and more people are getting out from misery condition.

k read this excerpt: 'The sugarcane economy is not a good environmental model. In the southeastern state of Sao Paulo, which produces 70 percent of Brazil's alcohol, the companies generally do not obey the Forestry Code, which requires nature preservation of 20 percent of rural properties. Furthermore, the cane fields are burned to facilitate the harvest, which creates serious local air pollution, said Rodrigues in a Tierram??rica interview. Soy, the main raw material for biodiesel in Brazil, due to its massive current production, "has already become one of the principal factors behind deforestation of the Amazon and the Cerrado, a biome of savannahs and scrub forests that covers the extensive central area of Brazil.'

actually you can't deny the replacement of soy and corn aimed at food cosumption by sugarcane for massive ethanol production is affecting basic food prices, since apparently in brazil prices have tripled recently and, in the europan union, the repercussions for 2007 were an average price increase of 50% for corn and 60% for wheat.. actually, in order to provide for a *single car* need in ethanol per year you need the harvest of 5 acres/2 hectares of land, which at a global scale is absurd on the long term

"Brazil has still 90 million hectares (222 million acres) waiting to be used, without having to destroy forests. These are most former pasture areas, made available by the evolution of cattle raising technique. A part of this large area is being directed for biomass and biofuel production." http://www.biofuelsnow.com/ethanol5.htm And about the increasing prices of corn is because the US use corn to produce biofuel. In Brazil, only beans are much more expensive now because of last year's dry weather. Yeah, soy expansion is a problem in Amaz??nia beyond many other problems.