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Brazil’s Ethanol Market Report – The Flexi-Fuel
By Mr Ethanol | September 3, 2007
Business Wire:
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Brazil’s Ethanol Market to their offering.
For over three decades, Brazil has been a global leader in the production and use of sugarcane-based ethanol or ethyl alcohol, a fuel additive that reduces the country’s petroleum consumption. Two years after the first global energy crisis in 1973, the Brazilian government introduced its ethanol initiative to decrease dependence on world energy supplies.
At its height in the mid-1980s, more than three quarters of the 800,000 cars produced in Brazil each year ran on ethanol. However, by 1990, a decline in the supply of sugar-based fuel brought the sale of ethanol-powered cars to nearly zero. Since their launch, “flexible-fuel” cars have helped re-ignite ethanol production in Brazil. Today, more than half of all cars in the country are “flexible-fuel” cars. At the same time, ethanol production has tripled since 1975.
Brazil is the world’s biggest producer and exporter of ethanol, developing 282,000 bbl/d in 2005. More than fifty percent of all cars in Brazil are powered by “flex-fuel.” This means that they can operate on 100 percent ethanol or an ethanol-gasoline mix. Ethanol in Brazil is derived from sugar cane, which flourishes in the country’s equatorial climate.
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