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Produção de energia no Brasil
Analysis: Brazil's once-envied energy matrix a victim of "hubris"
By Jeb Blount
RIO DE JANEIRO |
Mon Jan 7,
2013 4:25pm EST
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Just five years ago, Brazil's
mostly "green" energy landscape was the envy of nations dependent on dirtier
sources of power and the pride of a government that believed it was leading the
country to economic superpower status.
Three-quarters of electricity came from renewable hydro power and the main
automobile fuel was home-grown sugarcane ethanol. Plus, Brazil had just
found massive oil fields off its coast, putting it on a path to become the
world's No. 3 oil producer after
Russia and
Saudi Arabia by 2020.
Today, the outlook is much darker. Oil output is falling, ethanol production
has plunged, and fears have recently returned of electricity rationing that
could further depress a stagnant economy and embarrass President Dilma
Rousseff.
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