Sentences with phrase «brazilian ethanol»

Representing a Brazilian ethanol producer in a US$ 100 million ICC arbitration sited in London concerning a dispute arising out of the construction of an ethanol plant in Brazil.

In the future, the issue will be who gets access to not only Middle Eastern oil but also Brazilian ethanol and North American grain.

This system, now well established in the Brazilian ethanol industry, is spreading to sugar mills in other countries that produce the remaining 80 percent of the world sugar harvest.

Stephen Segrest — and if you think that's why they have those requirements and continue to have them, why does the Fed work so very hard to keep much cheaper Brazilian ethanol out of the country?

It is affordable, but in the U.S. we punish Brazilian ethanol with a $ 0.54 / gallon tariff to protect our unsustainable corn ethanol production.

has a discussion and documentation, including energy balances, (actually EROI = 10.5 in this presentation) of some of the points I was trying to make with Ender about the highly evolved efficiency of the Brazilian ethanol industry.

He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.

Flex fuel vehicles are common, and the United States has placed large import tariffs on Brazilian ethanol to keep it out of our country.

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

Huber also suggests eliminating tariffs on Brazilian ethanol and other foreign biofuels.

Not exact matches

Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

Much of the ETBE used in Japan is already made in the United States using Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, so the new rules should make it easy for producers to switch quickly to U.S. corn - based sources.

There was a story in the Financial Times about the Brazilian government cutting the tax on ethanol producers.

The Brazilian government temporarily removed a 20 % tariff on ethanol through December 31, 2011, in a move to pressure the United States to lift its own tariffs on imported ethanol.

By signing a Performance Agreement with Alfa Laval, a Brazilian sugar and ethanol plant eliminated unplanned downtime and saved around 100,000 Euros in nine months.

A strategic decision was made at the time by the government to switch to ethanol production in order to fuel the Brazilian fleet.

The Brazilian car manufacturing industry developed flexible - fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20 - E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100).

Both Brazilian sugarcane farmers who turn excess to ethanol and Chinese city dwellers who enjoy hot tea thanks to solar water heaters don't realize it but they are at the forefront of what an international panel of scientists hopes the future will look like.

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the trade group for sugar - cane ethanol from Brazil, criticized the IPCC for raising alarm on biofuels in the Working Group II report published on March 31.

Competitiveness of Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Compared to U.S. Corn Ethanol, Christine Crago, Madhu Khanna, Jason Barton, Eduardo Giuliani, Weber Amaral, Social Science Research Network, August 17, 2010.

Furthermore, the Brazilian subsidiary began producing flex - fuel versions for the Civic and the Fit models, capable of running on any blend of gasoline (E20 to E25 blend in Brazil) and ethanol up to E100.

The Brazilian - spec Jeep 551 will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex - fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm running on petrol or 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II diesel engine.

According to the Brazilian publication, the South American - spec version will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex - fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm running on petrol and 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II diesel engine.

This segment, which is centered in Brazil, sells sugar to the Brazilian and export markets and ethanol to the Brazilian domestic market.

Earthborn's PlantBag ® contains up to 30 % plant - based plastic, made from renewable and sustainable Brazilian sugarcane ethanol.

Brazilians meet much of their motor fuel needs with ethanol from sugarcane; on a smaller scale also in India.

The last drew a round of applause, and Mr. Clinton took the opportunity to endorse — perhaps controversially — the effort undertaken by President Bush and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last year: To heavily promote the production and use of ethanol made from sugar cane throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

But we disagree with his assertion that» Brazilian sugar - based ethanol» is» environmentally friendly.»

Setting aside the fact that in many cases clean energy competes on its own merits — for instance in the case of well ‐ situated wind farms and Brazilian sugarcane ethanol — this analysis shows that the global direct subsidy for fossil fuels is around ten times the subsidy for renewables.

Brazil's sugarcane - based ethanol program is «appropriate for replication in many countries,» writes José Goldemberg, secretary of the environment for the Brazilian state of São Paulo, in a perspective article in this week's issue of the journal Science.

By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belt.

This would require the agreement of — just to take a few examples — the Parliament of India, the Brazilian National Congress, the Chinese Politburo, Vladimir Putin, John Dingell, and the U.S. ethanol lobby.

(05/17/2007) Ethanol production in the United States may be contributing to deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest said a leading expert on the Amazon.

This study shows Brazilian sugarcane ethanol could displace up to 13 % of global crude oil consumption by 2045 whilst balancing forest conservation and future land demand for food.

As a matter of policy, the Brazilian government has supported the development of biofuels since launching a National Ethanol Program called Proálcool in 1975.

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also came to Rome to defend his country's cultivation of sugarcane ethanol.

Trying to tie the GHG profile of US ethanol to Brazilian soy is a bit of a stretch.

Though it's only occasionally on the public biofuel radar in the United States, what with corn ethanol and Brazilian sugar cane hogging the headlines, in the subtropical and tropical regions where the plant thrives, Jatropha has received much more attention.

It also plans on buying Brazilian sugarcane mills and ethanol plants, and converting them to run on its process.

Advising Cosan, the Brazilian - listed energy company, on its negotiations with Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) to revise the terms of its important Brazilian joint venture, Raizen, the world's largest sugar and ethanol producer and one of Brazil's largest companies.