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Anatomy of the Great Bio-Fuels Scam

by Narco News (reposted)
Upon my first arrival to the city of Rio de Janeiro back in June of 2002, I wanted to visit the one place every tourist wants to see: O Cristo. So on a seemingly warm and beautiful day we made our way to the top of Corcovado. There it was, the giant world famous 125-foot statue of Christ the Redeemer, overlooking much of the city and Guanabara Bay. Armed with cameras, we quickly headed to the statue’s east side vista to take personal snapshots of one of the worlds most dazzling panoramic views. Except we encountered a problem: Directly below us, the city of Rio de Janeiro had disappeared.

The entire city and surrounding waterfront seemed to be enveloped in some sort of thick yellow cloud.

“....what is that stuff? Fog?” we asked ourselves but I knew better. Fog is a whitish grey while this was almost a solid yellow. It was smog. Oddly enough, an argument soon broke out because the Brazilians I was with kept insisting it was fog and not smog. This fog/smog soon became the main topic of the local news. Much to my chagrin, even the newscasters were calling it a “strange fog”. It became so bad that the airports also had to close. Rio de Janeiro had been engulfed in a yellow cloud but everyone seemed to be at a loss trying to explain it.

I stood fast to my “smog” convictions, though. I mean, come on, Rio de Janeiro is a massive metropolis coupled with typically lax third world Co2 emissions standards. It was a no-brainer and all you have to do is look at what a place like Mexico City experiences everyday. Heck it wasn’t only a third world problem, either. Cities such as Los Angeles and Rome often suffer from the same type of auto-pollution.

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