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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.”
President Lula at the launch of the world's first "flex" power plant, fueled by ethanol and natural gas, in Juiz de Fora, Brazil
 
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.”
Senator Charles Grassley during Agriculture News Conference Call on January 5, 2010.
 
12/14/2009
“If 10% of the fossil fuel in the world would be replaced for ethanol, the E10 mixture would bring a considerable environmental benefit, and would raise more jobs”.
José Serra, Governor for the Sao Paulo State, during an side event organized by the Brazilian Climate Alliance on COP-15, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
11/05/2009
"My milkman used to drive around in electric cars a long time ago ... What's new?"
Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, eyeing future growth in alternative fuels and arguing that electric vehicles are old technology that requires too much infrastructure.
 
10/12/2009
"Brazilian ethanol and bioelectricity models are effective alternatives for the new global energy challenges that have emerged."
Former President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, during presentation at the Inter-american Dialogue in Washington, D.C.