IBA NEWS

Aspen, Colorado July 5, at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival, Florian Halazon built a bridge in world energy policy with these words, "President Clinton, it is my pleasure to introduce, the architect of Brazil Energy Miracle, Dr. Miquel Dabdoub and the man responsible for bringing him to America, Bruce Blackwell." Halazon is Co founder of International Bio Fuels, Association, Washington, DC, and Founder of Aspen Energy Institute.

Dr. Dabdoub's presentation at Ideas Festival on Food, Fuel on July 4th was quoted July 5th in the Aspen Ideas Festival Daily Update Highlights:

Will BioFuels Starve or Save Us

"We just planted 7 Million hectres in Brazil to produce ethanol. People who say Brazil is destroying the Amazon to produce ethanol -- they don't know anything about Brazil...Oil Prices are more responsible for the price of food than any biofuels...We need to think about globalizing the biofuels Market." - - Miquel Dabdoub, President, BioFuels Chamber, Sao Paulo Government, Brazil

Florian Halazon, Dr. Miquel Dabdoub, Antonio Ferreira

After meeting President Clinton at the Aspen Meadows Campus of the Aspen Institute