Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Chavez'

Battle of the videos

I don't profess to understand a word of this. I have no Spanish, as I've said before, but we have a battle of ideas in Spanish in video over on YouTube. I hope it is more about the pre-eminence of...

Chavez to try to talk to Lula about ethanol

Hugo Chavez says he's going to try to talk to Brazil's President Lula to persuade him not to promote ethanol in Latin America (so Mr Bush has had some effect South of the Border), according to The Devils Excrement blog....

Pan-American free-trade in ethanol

Brazil should be in a strong potion to argue for pan-American free-trade in ethanol when president Lula da Silva meets George W Bush in March. Laurens Rademakers says in Biopact  Making ethanol and biodiesel a globally traded alternative to petroleum...

Ethanol tech as an instrument of foreign policy

Ethanol technology is going to be used as an instrument of foreign policy, if a plan outlined tantalisingly on EnergyGrid comes to fruition. The US and Brazil could use ethanol as a way to counterbalance the might of Venezuela. Chavez is...