US looks to Brazil to fuel energy revolution - Financial Times - MSNBC.com

MSNBC.com: "Over the next six years, Brazil expects 77 new sugar or alcohol (both are raw ingredients for biofuels) plants to be built – a rate of more than one a month. According to Unica, the industry association, investments already under way amount to $14.6bn. Throughout its rich agricultural heartland, soya and other crops are being torn out and replaced by sugar cane."