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Ethanol - Understanding the Market and Prices
A key feature of commodities is their uncontrolled price fluctuations. Except in the case of petroleum products –– which in Brazil are a monopoly with government-controlled prices –– all other commodities suffer from permanent price volatility.
Ethanol – benefits, risks and challenges
Energy from sugarcane can strengthen Brazil’s electrical power system
Ethanol´s Astral Hell
Realities that replace myths
Legal reserve: a senseless confrontation between agriculture and environment
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New Advancements in Flex Fuel Technology
Alfred Szwarc
 
Philip New
“Biofuels are not to blame for world hunger”
The director of British Petroleum (BP), Philip New, in a recent interview for the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, demystifies the advance of biofuels in relation to the alleged increase in world hunger. In an interview for journalist Jakok Schlandt, the executive of one of the largest energy companies in the world speaks in particular of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol.
Sustainability-Verified Brazilian Ethanol reaches Swedish pumps in August
Anders Fredrikson
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Quotes
01/19/2010
“When developed countries have to comply with the Kyoto Protocol and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, they`ll have to become more involved than ever with ethanol.”
01/08/2010
“I think in 2010 about the only thing that might be controversial and difficult to maintain would be -- and I`m going to fight to maintain it -- but that would be the ethanol import duty.”
Charles Grassley
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Jim Lane
The Brazilian Connection: As renewable jet fuel gains traction, Brazil’s sugarcane is more popular than ever
A travel agent working the Silicon Valley corridor joining San Francisco and San Jose could be writing a lot of business booking tickets from San Jose to Sao Paulo these days. Just about every advanced biofuels CEO and key VC player has been there, is planning to go there, or is in Sao Paulo right now.
Nationalizations, elections and the pre-salt
Adriano Pires*
The food crisis will be back
Marcos Fava Neves
Ethanol: recognition by US will boost shipments in medium term
Amaryllis Romano*
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