Friday, May 11, 2007
Brazil, Ethanol & the New Great Game
Brazil, Ethanol & the New Great Game
April 13, 2007
With Chinese, Japanese, Indian, American, and European delegations crisscrossing Brazil to size up the country’s potential as a supplier of strategic materials, specifically ethanol, it is hard not to draw an analogy with the fight for hegemony that took place in Asia between Tsarist Russia and the British Empire, in the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries, says this interesting piece.
Over the last month, France’s Louis Dreyfus bought all the sugar and ethanol refineries belonging to the Tavares de Melo Group, becoming the second-largest producer of ethanol in Brazil....
So what's in store for Brazil and its ethanol? Read this post @ Etha Blog for more inputs
April 13, 2007
With Chinese, Japanese, Indian, American, and European delegations crisscrossing Brazil to size up the country’s potential as a supplier of strategic materials, specifically ethanol, it is hard not to draw an analogy with the fight for hegemony that took place in Asia between Tsarist Russia and the British Empire, in the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries, says this interesting piece.
Over the last month, France’s Louis Dreyfus bought all the sugar and ethanol refineries belonging to the Tavares de Melo Group, becoming the second-largest producer of ethanol in Brazil....
So what's in store for Brazil and its ethanol? Read this post @ Etha Blog for more inputs
Labels: brazil, ethanol, politics
Monday, March 26, 2007
The inconvenient truth about energy
The inconvenient truth about energy
Mar 25, 2007
Claims from certain quarters of the American left to be genuinely interested in energy independence are ringing hollow. And it is painfully obvious because opposition to just about any kind of energy development comes from, you guessed it ... the left, says this opinion article from The Daily Interlake
Mar 25, 2007
Claims from certain quarters of the American left to be genuinely interested in energy independence are ringing hollow. And it is painfully obvious because opposition to just about any kind of energy development comes from, you guessed it ... the left, says this opinion article from The Daily Interlake
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