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You see yes the Brazilians have managed to have 100% in house energy production, some of which apparently yes does come from sugar, as matter of fact at each gas station you have an ethanol pump as an option! What is not mentioned is the huge oil find offshore that the Brazilians found, the biggest find in decades, in fact so big they are thinking about joining Opec! you see the objective way to solve the energy crisis is to leave ALL options on the table (in no particular order!), lets find ways to conserve and be efficient with what we have, lets find ways to add to what we have (different energy sources including nuclear power ask France they know) and lets start drilling in the mean time offshore or otherwise! One of the overlooked reasons for the energy crisis is that china and India have tapped into the pipeline and increased the demand hence the price! Brazil is going to add to this pipeline as a source by 2010 I believe. We can also decrease our dependence on foreign oil if we tapped into the vast oil treasures that we have here in house, Alaska, California offshore, Texas offshore, etc! Give a tremendous push to go nuclear as per France. lets be wise yes conservation is very important, efficiency is paramount, but if these are the things we hold up and don't look at the whole pie we are in for a hurt economically and as a civilization as a whole! Case and point brazil, who decreased their dependence on oil by supplementing it with sugar (ethanol) and then complementing their whole energy crisis by investigating and finding in-house Oil. FYI our top oil importers are Mexico and Canada, not the Middle East, which I believe (could be corrected) is less than 10%! Most of oil does not come from “Big Oil” it comes from government owned Oil companies (e.g. Chavez, Saudi Arabia, mexico, Kuwait, etc), which then sell to American companies.
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