Mozambique's sugar cane to be used in making ethanol

[JohnWxy]

http://www.africagoodnews.com/trade-and-investment/mozambique-draws-foreign-investment-in-ethanol-production.html


Mozambique approved biofuel projects using ethanol as the primary source in 2007.

Cepagri has various proposals for ethanol production from cane sugar and sorghum under consideration throughout Mozambique.

"If all projects were approved it would mean by 2020 an area of between 80,000 and 130,000 hectares would be under cultivation producing between 835 million and 1.6 billion litres of ethanol a year", Albino said.

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Most of this ethanol would be exported to the European Union.

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[Sebastian Doyle]

1. They should use sugar cane to make sugar

and use hemp for ethanol.

[NNadir]

2. The presence of semi-enslaved workers in Brazil has made this a huge success story!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/16/105448/03">Those Happy Sugarcane Workers In Brazil: The Car Culture and Urinary Carcinogens.

I'll bet we don't hear a peep out a single car CULTist anywhere about the working conditions of sugarcane workers anywhere on the face of the earth.

Why should we. As sugarcane workers are too poor to afford cars, they don't matter.

[Nihil]

3. Geography fail.

I know what you are trying to say but you need to be more
coherent and less randomly angry.
:shrug:

[NNadir]

4. Um, process fail.

It doesn't matter where you raise sugarcane to fuel the West's car CULTure renewable portfolio.

Sugar slavery wasn't qualitatively different in Louisiana, Jamaica or Brazil or for that matter South East Asia or, Africa.

It was all the same.

Now that sugarcane workers are nominally "not slaves" the situation is still the same world wide.

I will thank you for not presuming to tell me about whether or not I can be angry while I listen to a bunch of oblivious cheering from people who generally think their cars come before anything else.

Let's be clear on something, the people who are dying right now for ethanol for cars in Brazil, count. The idea of extending the geographical boundries in which this travesty is occurring, where the poor suffer for the luxury of the poor should make people angry, at least if they have any shred of decency.

Have a nice smug day.