Jan 27 – Brazilian president Lula da Silva affirmed yesterday, Jan 26th in Davos, Switzerland, that his country volunteers to transfer technology for production of biodiesel and ethanol to poorer countries, most of them in Africa and Central America, for free.

Speaking at the 2007 World Economic Forum, Lula suggested that rich countries should finance such kind of projects in countries in development, as a form of reducing inequality in the world.

- “Biodiesel generates employments, generates income, generates development. Our biofuels program could be an example to be financed by rich nations to poorer nations of Africa and Central America”- said the Brazilian president.

One of the main subjects discussed in Davos is Global Warming, caused principally by combustion of fossil fuels. Biodiesel and ethanol, IF produced under economic and environmentally sustainable conditions, are a viable alternative to those fossil fuels. Well, tropical countries are exactly those who have the best conditions to accomplish that sustainable and cheaper production.

Lula mentioned, as an example, that USA, instead of producing ethanol from corn, could save much money if decided to finance and acquire biofuel production from poorest countries.

Actually, we believe, this is a much better alternative to continue importing oil from potentially hostile suppliers, an alternative not only with lower costs, but also without the burden of oil wars costs. And an alternative that, promoting some substantial development in biofuels producing countries, could not only reduce somewhat the terrible inequalities, but would also lessen the migratory pressure from those countries to USA, Canada and EU.

This is also our thesis in Biofuels Now. A great number of poor countries in Africa and elsewhere have good environmental conditions that favor the development of sustainable biofuels industries and this could prove of great value for their development in the verge of Peak Oil. We partake completely the Brazilian government policy of taking biofuels technology to many other countries in the world. These countries have available soils, water, cheap land and labor; and also much, much poverty.

Our particular position, however, is that we must do our best to spread good ORGANIC AGRICULTURE BASED technology for ethanol, biomass, biogas and biodiesel, so this is going to be the nucleus of most information that will be found in Biofuels Now site as long it develops in time.