Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
Here's a question:
Donald Trump is a huge admirer of Brazil's hardcore right wing president, Javier Bolsonaro, yes?
Brazil’s total 2019 ethanol production is estimated at 34.45 billion liters, an increase of four percent compared to the revised figure for 2018. Total domestic demand for ethanol (fuel and other uses) for calendar year 2019 is estimated at 33.93 billion liters.
That's 9,100,727,203 gallons, a little bit over 9 billion gallons.
Clearly Brazil has the ability to produce a lot of ethanol and...you'd think Trump would want to strike some kind of a deal with Brazil so we could pay them to produce some surplus.

So...why no deal, from the guy who published "The Art of the Deal"? Why aren't we sourcing extra ethanol from Brazil to make up for the drastic domestic shortfall?
(REPORT: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service)

His name is Jair, not Javier (which would be a Hispanic name; Brazilians are of Lusitanian culture and speak Portuguese).

Regarding your point, I'd suppose that if we want the alcohol to use for hand sanitizers, Brazil would probably not be highly interested in selling it to foreign countries, given that they have a huge epicenter of the pandemic, themselves.

Please take COVID-19 seriously; don't panic but don't deny it; practice social distancing (stay 6ft from people); wash your hands a lot, don't touch your face, don't gather with too many people, so that you help us contain it.