Brazil produces the food we eat.We do not import the food we eat and we do not have rice and bean rations either.A pk of beans now stands a 5.00 reais kilo,how can the very poor afford 5 reais for a pk of beans when their earnings are so little.So you are talking ..........

Brazil is a net imported of rice. Anyway, what counts is the opportunity cost of selling abroad or being consumed internally. Bottow, and concise line, what happens in the world price matters, no doubt on that.

Well actually people are consuming less fresh fruit and veggies and their regular rice and beans and are being replaced by couscous and pasta instead and this is creating more illnesses and diseases hence(dengy deaths in RIO are up and other areas which amounts to over 60 in Rio alone this year.Yam deters dengy fever but that is 4,80 kilo!QUOTE=FCZ;44044]Brazil is a net imported of rice. Anyway, what counts is the opportunity cost of selling abroad or being consumed internally. Bottow, and concise line, what happens in the world price matters, no doubt on that.[/quote]

I am told that if alcool is below 70% of the petrol price then it is more cost effective to use alcool. Here in Natal at present Alcool is between 1.63 - 1.66 R$ per litre. Petrol is around 2.59 per litre.

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Nice one, cheers Mike

Hi Ralph - went for a drive this afternoon, and thought you might like to see some of the pictures I took of the scenery in my part of Pernambuco. But I do not know how to post them, so I will try to send them to you in an email, and perhaps you can post them for me.

Then we can try and find out why there is such a discrepancy from one state to another???

Oh, and by the way petrol v alcool? At these prices, definitely Alcool, and it delivers more bang for your bucks...

Brazil has the most expensive cars......IN THE WORLD!



From today's Globo.com



Impostos chegam a 40% do valor do carro
Tributo no Brasil é quase o dobro da média de países emergentes como Argentina e China.
Sem taxas, valor de um carro de entrada custaria cerca de R$ 15 mil a menos.


Gol zero quilômetro custaria R$ 10.081 sem impostos sobre a venda (Foto: Divulgação)

Já pensou em pagar por um Volkswagen Gol zero quilômetro o valor de R$ 10.081 em vez dos R$ 26.530 cobrados nas concessionárias? Não se trata de promoção de montadora, mas sim o que o carro custaria se chegasse às lojas sem os impostos que se somam ao longo da cadeia de produção do veículo.

Essa diferença de 38% nos carros de até mil cilindradas, mas que chega a 40% para as outras motorizações, representa a carga tributária nominal, que inclui as cobranças sobre venda de ICMS (Imposto sobre Circulação de Mercadorias e Serviços), IPI (Imposto sobre Produtos Industrializados), PIS (Programa de Integração Social ) e Cofins (Contribuição para o Financiamento da Seguridade Social).

“Essa carga é altíssima. Você não encontra nenhum lugar do mundo onde se aplique carga tão alta. Os países emergentes aplicam metade disso”, ("This charge is extremely high. You don't find taxes this high in any other place in the world. Emerging countries charge half this.") afirma o presidente do Instituto Brasileiro de Planejamento Tributário (IBPT), Gilberto Luiz do Amaral.

Segundo Amaral, na Argentina a carga tributária acumulada é de cerca de 24%. “Isso porque agora aumentou um pouco, mas já foi de 20%”, observa. Nos EUA, a cobrança de impostos também chega a 24% do preço final, na Europa é 30% e na Índia e China, cerca de 20%.






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Once again, the lovely gov't. of Brazil charging the highest taxes on planet earth, yet public security, infrastructure, education.....all in shambles. We see next to nothing for our tax dollars. You want security? Hire a bodyguard. You want good education, send your kids to private school, and still, it's difficult to find a good one, you want good infrastructure, or in many cases just infrastructure?? Well, you're in the wrong place.

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Consumer spending is down 24% according to researchers Fundaçao Getullio Vargas.Borrowing on credit has halted expenditure as people are struggling to pay back debts.

I visited my favourite restaurant yesterday and Camaroes was empty! We were entertaining guests from S.P.When the food arrived it had diminished to half the size of its original portion and had approximately 20 prawns in the dish.The bill came to almost 180,00 reais with dessert and the guests(they were just a couple) asked: Where are all the foreigners?Ponta Negra is empty.

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Carnival time for Brazil's economy - Business Analysis & Features, Business - The Independent