Guide to Getting Around Part 10 Brazil
Male: People in the United States have been led to believe that alternative fuels are only a dream for the future. Here in Brazil, they are reality.
Hey, I have to count the real for this video, besides it is the tax deduction. No, when the oil prices hit, Brazil saw its own energy independence. They have been fueled by alcohol since the 1970s.
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That is not what I meant.
Like good resourceful human beings, Brazil’s love to there resources and saw they have a lot of sugar cane. “Gee, what can we do with these stuff?”
Now they have alcohol cars and biodiesel buses. These Brazilian drivers are doing these because they want to be green, afford to make a statement. They do it because the economics work.
Female1: This alcohol, of course, because it is cheaper than the gas and it is good for our environment. It is cleaner and because it makes the car more powerful than the gasoline.
Female2: When the sugarcane is alive, the sugarcane absorb the CO2 and when it burned the same CO2 it is put again to the environment. So, because of that, the alcohol is cleaner than gasoline. When you use alcohol that are more soak so you can go fast with your car when you use alcohol than you use gasoline.
Male: Let me make this clear. Alcohol is raising fuel, it is the same stuff they put in the race cars in Indianapolis.
In 1989, there was a bad crop of sugar and the cost of alcohol went up relative to the price of the gasoline, ever since then the Brazilians have demanded flexible fuel vehicles and the auto manufacturers have given it to them.
These are the concept cars are demonstration vehicles, either locally produced cars from companies like Vokswagen, Fiat, and Ford.
Ford? These are repaired daily, an American company? We know how to make these cars? Why don’t we sell alcohol in our gas stations? Where is our selection of pumps? Jesus Christ America, show some thigh! We are getting over shadowed in fuel technology by Brazil!
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