{"id":168,"date":"2007-06-11T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/president-lula-defends-ethanol-in-uk-media\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:56:00","slug":"president-lula-defends-ethanol-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/president-lula-defends-ethanol-in\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lula defends ethanol in UK media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian president Luis In\u00c3\u00a1cio da Silva, or Lula, was given a media platform by the UK Guardian, one of the most influential newspapers in the country, to put across the arguments for sugar-cane ethanol, alongside other topics (the article appeared on June 01 and is not available online). <\/p>\n<p>His main point was to reassure readers that the production of ethanol does not harm the environment because &#8220;it grows poorly in Amazonian soils&#8221;. He also said that &#8220;sugar cane planting helps restore degraded pastures elsewhere in the country that are then returned to food production&#8221;. He added that the sugar cane business in Brazil earns $8bn a year and creates a million direct jobs in rural areas thus curbing migration to urban centres.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian president Luis In\u00c3\u00a1cio da Silva, or Lula, was given a media platform by the UK Guardian, one of the most influential newspapers in the country, to put across the arguments for sugar-cane ethanol, alongside other topics (the article appeared on June 01 and is not available online). His main point was to reassure readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,10,16,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-eco-friendly","category-environment","category-ethanol","category-fuels","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}