Re: useful analogy

From: Edwin (thorne25_at_juno.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:06:10 GMT

ziliath wrote:
> Linux is to Microsoft/SCO, what ethanol is to oil/gasoline.
>
> I've been told that 80% of cars in Brasil run on locally-produced
> ethanol, and that the Germans used ethanol during WW1 and WW2.
[snip]

> Brasil of course is also experiencing this independence.

It's not quite that simple. Oil prices often fall, and make gasoline
cheaper than it is to produce ethanol. Brazil subsidizes their ethanol
industry.

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