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- steelersfan7roe, on 07/08/2009, -0/+18Brazil already has COMPLETE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.
It's too bad the middle east has the US by the balls when it comes to energy.
Maybe instead of invading countries that didn't attack us we should have spent all that money on trying to actually make the US safer. Maybe to the tune of not sending oil producing dictators billions of dollars every year? - tiresias2, on 07/08/2009, -0/+17Brazil has led the way in biofuels, don't doubt them with EVs.
- SilicoSurfer, on 07/08/2009, -2/+13Yeah, totally. I hate free and clean solar energy.
- steelersfan7roe, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6@pathouston. You keep bring up this "domestic oil" thing.
Here's what you need to know
1. There is not enough domestic oil to satisfy US demand
2. Oil companies sell oil on a GLOBAL MARKET. We still have to compete with global buyers.
3. It will be 20 years before we see anything from offshore drilling
OIL is not the answer. Electric cars of non-corn based ethanol are the only long term solutions. - mvpimpao, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6yes.
- EnergyGeekCa, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6Kudos to Brazil!
- tiresias2, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5At the charging stations, you can exchange your battery for one that is already charged for the same cost of charging it... so actually it doesn't take any time at all...
- rgaino, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5I lived in there for 28 years. The only crime I can remember happening to me or my family was someone broke in our house and stole our VCR while we were at the beach , that was circa 1990. Although RJ and SP are not the safest places, overall it is a very safe country.
- tgc1, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5It's sad when a country like Brazil goes leaps and bounds ahead into the future; Meanwhile countries like the US and Canada get left in its dust because our politicians and businesses are so incompetent and lead by profit that they can't see the inevitability of this outcome.
All the greenwashing in the world doesn't mean ***** when you're on the take for big oil. I mean up here in canada they are more worried about plastic bags than the millions of barrels of oil we use every damned day. - askantik, on 07/08/2009, -0/+4Domestic oil is *****. The ANWR compromises most of the oil we have in the US (aside from off-shore) and it's a giant amount of oil-- but it's still only enough that if we used it exclusively, it'd run dry in about 300 days. That's less than 1 year, just FYI. And that's at CURRENT rates-- and our population is getting bigger, not smaller.
- jwanderson, on 07/08/2009, -0/+4You probably wouldn't be getting buried if you linked to any of the 'facts' of which you speak.
- steelersfan7roe, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3@ again at you pathouston.
There is a GLOBAL OIL MARKET. We cannot pick and choose who we get our oil from. - ZenMojo, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3It takes 30 minutes to charge an EV for about a 35 mile trip. Since most Californians drive that much a day, it means if you forgot to charge your car to full the night before it would take half an hour out of your day for a full day's worth of mileage.
If you forgot to charge your car the night before. - jerryjamesstone, on 07/08/2009, -2/+5Me too. It's totally evil like Communism
- Moralogic, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2I think it is funny these dumbass corporate A-holes don't look ahead more than a few years. They think of short term profit, and forget all about how they could multiply their profit many times fold if they planned for the long term instead.
Examples:
Invest in renewable energy like wind, solar, and hydroelectric.
Treat your customers great, and they will reward you by being loyal customers. Here is a concept, give them something for free just because you can afford it as a company, and you want to be nice. (Video game companies - offer free expansion packs, Best Buy - actually honor your "we will match their price" policy, and much more good stuff.)
Instead of laying off 1,000 employees, cap your company's maximum salary to $500,000 instead of accepting 10 million a year. You do that for the top 10 employees making over 5 million for one year, then you can pay those employees at least $50,000 a year, what a concept! [Come on, I can live off of $5 million for the rest of my life, $10 million I can live extremely happily for the rest of my life.] - tgc1, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2Yup, this guy totally doesn't work for the oil industry or have stock in those companies. Nope, can't possibly.
- fooljoe, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2good job brazil, except the problem isn't a lack of charging stations, it's a lack of electric cars. there are a ton of charging stations in california, built a decade ago, but no practical (i.e. not tesla or NEV golf carts) electric cars for sale to use them.
- FairDinkumMate, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2I live in Sao Paulo & have no problems, although like any big city, there are definitely places you wouldn't want to be alone after dark....
- Moralogic, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Especially when in the short term is cost more money, because I dont have the foresight to think 20+ years ahead, not only on cost, but on technological advancements.
- FakingFamous, on 07/08/2009, -4/+5is Brazil a safe place to live?
- ozydingo, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Nah, more likely just a troll.
- kajeana, on 07/25/2009, -0/+1I live in Fortaleza for 10 years now and I have never had any problems with violence or crime. It is there but with common sense one can avoid problems like everywhere else in the world. If you are looking for a nice place to stay I can recommend Fortaleza and if you need housing check out Fortaleza Real Estate www.fortalezarealestate.com.br
- FairDinkumMate, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1This is symbolic only & will probably never make a practical difference here in Brazil. As the article states, more than 90% of cars sold now are flex-fuel so ethanol is the answer(the other 10% are high-end imports that run gasoline only). Electric cars won't be affordable any time soon in Brazil as they don't create enough jobs here. To be competitive, they'd need huge tax breaks(check the price of normal cars here at www.webmotors.com.br & divide prices by 2 for approx. US$) which the government won't give as ethanol production employs a lot of people.
- IllBeBack, on 07/08/2009, -1/+1Half an hour is too long to sit waiting for a battery to charge. This will never fly.
Now, battery exchange stations are a much better idea and hold the promise of taking long road trips in electric-only vehicles. - pathouston22, on 07/08/2009, -2/+2The oil companies choose where they get their oil from. And if the government subsidized it or provided tax benefits for domestic or Canadian oil, the oil companies would go where they can get cheaper oil.
- kbergeth, on 07/09/2009, -1/+0Brazil has huge ethanol supplies because of the sugar production. Ethanol doesn't really make sense anywhere else tho...
- k81ng, on 07/08/2009, -2/+1Brazil also leads the world in rain forest deforestation.
- pathouston22, on 07/08/2009, -4/+1Never said oil is the answer. Domestic oil is a short term alternative choice to foreign oil.
America uses 22 million barrels a day. USA has 20 billion barrels of proven reserves, Canada has 179 billion barrels of proven reserves, Mexico has 11. And that's just PROVEN. We don't need the Middle East. But hey, if you want to support terrorism, then don't support domestic drilling. - pathouston22, on 07/08/2009, -7/+3We could have energy independence (with a few oil imports from friendly countries) if we drilled here for oil - while converting to green energy.
- ftx437, on 07/08/2009, -8/+3damn almost out of juice in my car..lemme go waste a couple hours so i can recharge my car on the side of the road.
- GaltShrugged, on 07/08/2009, -13/+3Yippie. More wasted money on inefficient energy.
Ya, bury me. It still doesn't change the facts.
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