Questão 863456

Text II

Brazil is one of the largest producers of ethanol in the

world and is the largest exporter of the fuel. In 2006,

Brazil produced 308,000 bbl/d of ethanol. It is predicted

that Brazil’s ethanol production will reach 329,000 bbl/d

5 in 2007 and 365,000 bbl/d in 2008, as over half of all

cars in the country are of the flex-fuel variety and all

gasoline in Brazil contains ethanol. Ethanol in Brazil

comes from sugar cane, which prospers in the country’s

tropical climate.

10 In recent years, Brazil has tried to increase ethanol

exports, especially to the United States. In 2006, Brazil

exported 29,600 bbl/d of ethanol to the United States,

quadruple the amount exported to the U.S. in 2005. To

help facilitate additional exports, Petrobras announced

15 a plan in early 2006 to build an ethanol pipeline from

Goias, an interior area at the center of Brazil’s sugarcane

production, to Sao Paulo. However, increasing domestic

demand and high domestic prices may limit export

growth. In addition, Brazil’s ethanol exports face high

20 tariffs in some markets, such as the 54 cent per gallon

tariff in the United States.

Energy Information Administration

extracted from: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Brazil/Oil.html

According to Paragraph 2 in Text II, Brazilian exports of canebased ethanol