Brazil Biodiesel Sputters On Social, Green Goals
Brazil Biodiesel Sputters On Social, Green Goals BRAZIL: April 3, 2008 IRAQUARA, Brazil - Booming demand for biodiesel has become a lifeline for some poor farmers who plant oil seeds in Brazil's dry northeast but critics say the fuel is not as clean, equitable and bountiful as the government boasts. "Nobody ever wanted this stuff and now they can't get enough," farmer Joel Queiroz said of the drought-resistant castor beans he sells to a biodiesel refinery in Iraquara, 310 miles (500 km) west of the Bahia state capital, Salvador.