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CZZ chatter yesterday about potential end to U.S. tariff on foreign ethanol imports

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Obama’s Campaign Closely Linked With Ethanol
http://www.truthabouttrade.org/content/view/11924/54/

Sugar rises to four-month high on ethanol demand
By Moming Zhou, MarketWatch
Last update: 4:59 p.m. EDT July 1, 2008Comments: 34SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sugar futures rose Tuesday to their highest point in nearly four months on concerns that record crude-oil prices will increase global demand for ethanol produced from sugarcane as an alternative.Sugar rises to four-month high on ethanol demand
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sugar-rises-four-month-high-ethanol/story.aspx?guid=%7BB8E594B2-C3B9-4CDB-A0D6-4EEA5C85D80D%7D&dist=msr_6


Need cheaper fuel? Cane do, Brazil says
Jerry W. Jackson | Sentinel Staff Writer
July 4, 2008
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-cane0408jul04,0,7545751.story

Food groups urge Bush to suspend sugar-ethanol tariff
By Jim Snyder
Posted: 07/03/08 12:57 PM [ET]
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/food-groups-urge-bush-to-suspend-sugar-ethanol-tariff-2008-07-03.html

Senator Lugar: Global Food Security
An Agenda for the G8 Summit
"To demonstrate leadership, the United States should lift
its tariff on Brazilian ethanol that now shelters the U.S. industry. G8 nations should
encourage greater investment in research and large-scale commercial deployment of next
generation biofuels made from non-feed stocks."
http://lugar.senate.gov/energy/food/G8Memo.pdf


Europe rethinks biofuels as climate-change remedy
European officials have proposed scaling back dramatically their goal of increasing Europe's use of biofuels, a major about-face on a central...
By JAMES KANTER
The New York Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008038558_biofuels08.html

EU to change biofuels policy: imports from Brazil, solid biomass for electric transport, biohydrogen

http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week28/Monday/0707011.html

"Brazil is the largest exporter of ethanol, but we cannot take full advantage of this because of an ill-advised 54-cent tariff per gallon on ethanol, to protect our corn growers. Not only is it cheaper to produce ethanol from sugarcane, but corn is less energy efficient and brought on the global food vs. fuel debate.
"http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jul/09/we-know-truth-be-self-evident/


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