It’s Time to Discuss New Energy Sources with the United States

Published in Correio do Brasil
(Brazil) on 12 March 2011
by José Dirceu (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Anna Ruby Waxham Blackwell. Edited by Sam Carter.
In a statement made yesterday, President Barack Obama said that, considering the crisis in North African and Middle Eastern countries, the United States hopes to strengthen ties with other petroleum-producing nations, and that this will be one of the topics discussed in his visit to Brazil next week. “When it comes to imported oil, we’re strengthening our key energy relationships with other producer nations, something that I will discuss with President Rousseff when I visit Brazil next week,” he affirmed.

Any and all discussions about oil are welcome, particularly with a partner like the United States, but in Brazilian energy policy, despite the importance of Petrobras and the pre-salt oil reserves, ethanol and biodiesel take priority in the search for alternative energy sources.

Thus, discussing energy with Barack Obama, in addition to secure sources of supply for the United States, is mainly a discussion of how to break down trade barriers for our ethanol in the U.S. market (our trade balance having more and more deficits) and how to discover together, through research in new technology, new sources of clean energy. In this area the United States and Brazil have many reasons to cooperate, for both nations are among the best suited to develop new energy sources.


Em declarações feitas ontem, o presidente americano, Barack Obama, disse que, em meio à crise em países no norte da África e no Oriente Médio, os Estados Unidos pretendem fortalecer as relações com outras nações produtoras de petróleo, e este será um dos temas discutidos em sua visita ao Brasil, na próxima semana. “No que diz respeito à importação de petróleo, nós estamos fortalecendo nossas relações-chave com outras nações produtoras. Isso é algo que vou discutir com a presidente Dilma Rousseff”, afirmou.

Toda e qualquer discussão sobre petróleo é bem vinda, particularmente com um parceiro como os Estados Unidos, mas na política energética brasileira, apesar da importância da Petrobras e do pré-sal, o etanol e o biodiesel ocupam um lugar prioritário, na busca de fontes alternativas de energia.

Assim, discutir energia com Barack Obama, para além de fontes seguras de abastecimento para os Estados Unidos, é principalmente discutir como derrubar as barreiras ao nosso etanol no mercado dos Estados Unidos (nossa balança comercial é cada vez mais deficitária), e como encontrar, juntos, via pesquisas de novas tecnologias, novas fontes limpas de energia. Nesse campo os Estados Unidos e o Brasil têm muito o que cooperar, já que são as duas nações em melhores condições de desenvolver novas fontes de energia.

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