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Fuel Alternatives - Brazil - Pushing Biodiesel, Ethanol
USA -The Car Connection, by Paul A. Eisenstein -13 June 2006: -- No country has made a more complete commitment to alcohol-based fuels than Brazil. The Latin American nation first experimented with ethanol back in 1912, and by the late 1980s, was beginning to use it widely as a substitute for gasoline. There are now 5.7 million flex fuel vehicles on the road in Brazil, and in contrast to the U.S., where there are also millions in operation, Brazilians actually are making widespread use of ethanol. By using sugar cane, rather than corn, as a feedstock, costs are extremely competitive with gasoline, noted Silvio Crestana, the president of Embrapa. The country expects to invest another $10 billion to expand production of the alternative, renewable fuel by 2010... Meanwhile, manufacturers are expected to increase to 80 percent the share of alcohol-ready cars sold in Brazil this year... Brazil is also looking to boost the use of a renewable alternative to petro-based diesel fuel, the executive announced. Within two years, at least two percent of the country's diesel will be bio-based, and by 2013, that will be required to go to 13 percent, according to new regulations. Overall, Crestana said, the goal of the populous nation is to make renewable fuels account for "more than 50 percent" of its energy mix in the near future...
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