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http://select.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/opinion/15friedman.html?pagewanted=print

Writing from Brazil – where ethanol is beginning to replace gas – Friedman says, “The Stone Age ended because people invented tools. The oil age is…not going to end because we run out of oil. It will end because the price of oil goes so high that people invent alternatives…Oil at $70 a barrel has done just that.” He notes that, “With just a few technological breakthroughs, Brazil could be the Saudi Arabia of sugar and we could actually achieve that energy dream of getting ‘barrels from bushel’…”

He notes that “34,000 gas stations here…offer both gasoline and ethanol…and because 70 percent of new cars sold here can run on either gasoline or sugar ethanol…Brazil has replaced about 40 percent of its gasoline consumption with sugar ethanol.”