Alcohol As Fuel Used In Brazil?

Why is alcohol made from sugar cane popular in that country for autos?



Brazil is the largest world producer of cane of sugar. During the seventies when there was to 1st crisis of the petroleum Brazil began a program to substitute the petroleum for a renewable fuel and give to Brazil the independence of imported petroleum. The program went by several problems, the first was that the price of the sugar go up and the producers stopped producing the alcohol and they only produced sugar, there the price of the alcohol go up a lot and who had car to alcohol had a great damage. The time passed and the government guaranteed that who bought car to alcohol would not have damage. But once again the price of the sugar go up and the car owners to alcohol had damage again. Only when the brazilian automotive industry developed a car that can be moved by 3 types of fuel (gas, gasoline and alcohol) it is that the car to alcohol became popular in Brazil. everybody today has a car that can be moved to alcohol and all the gas station sell alcohol. It is 40% cheaper than the gasoline.


Detail the Brazilian gasoline is one of the more expensive of the world.


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