http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/world/middleeast/18abudhabi.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

About Brazil, US farmers will be up in arms about the Ethanol deal. By doing a deal in Brazil and other Latin American countries, there is greater potential for oil companies to control prices and supply. There will be less incentive for American farmers and less investment in Ethanol plants when the price can be undercut by offshore product.

Remember, George W is an oil man, and if McCann falters there’s another Bush waiting in the wings….

This appears to be a Harper green washing act. Just look south of the border. Uh, a little bit further south. OK a lot further south where Bush was on his Latin America tour to sell “America’s record of aid and concern of the poor of Latin America.”

OK now that you’ve picked yourself off of the floor from hysterical laughter and recover from hitting your head hard on the table during the fall. Look at what Bush actually did. He was in Brazil to cut an ethanol trade deal with Brazil and to further ethanol production from Guatemala’s abundant sugar cane crops which can not be exported to the US as sugar because of trade tariffs but are perfectly fine as ethanol as sugar cane yields a much higher quantity of ethanol than corn does. It’s ironic that Bush touted ethanol as a way of getting away from foreign sources of oil from people who do not mean the US well, like umm, Canada and Mexico, who provide a substantial amount of the imported fuel the we here in the US use.

So Harper takes his cues from Bush. He apes him and he agrees with him that the government should not reign in green house gasses.

And that is, as they say, all folks!