The production of ethanol has increased in United States and Brazil in recent years, because of incentives to reduce … gas consumption. In Brazil, there is a big program to use ethanol both as a single fuel or an additive to gas. In US, the … incentive is to use ethanol combined to gas in proportion that can reach to 85 percent of the mix. This situation has prompted …

choices among tradeoffs. Within the transport sector alone, ethanol has been shown to be the dominant solution among viable … - the largest producer of sugarcane-based ethanol and a country with over three decades of ethanol development - we find a … strong basis for evaluating the ethanol industry's role in a national economy. In the mid 1970's, Brazilian ethanol …