Brazil is dancing to a brasher beat

摘要

While the United States under President Barack Obama is performing a self-castration in its energy prowess and posture, Brazil, under Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a firebrand socialist and not a particular friend of the United States, is poised to emerge as an energy superpower.rnObama and many of his core supporters have had a mystifying aversion to oil and gas, the most obvious sources of energy. Energy is the most important commodity in the modern world and arguably the one that closely equates to power.