June 2007
Sugar Cane Cutters or Indebted Slaves?
Brazil is a well known, large user of sugar-cane based ethanol; 80% of all new cars sold in Brazil are "flex-fuel" models that run on gasoline, ethanol or any combination of the two.
Ethanol currently sells for about half the price of gasoline in Brazil; it is inexpensive and accounts for nearly 20% of the country's annual fuel consumption. Increasing international demand and billions of financial dollars is allowing Brazil to expand due to being a major exporter of ethanol.
