UPI, 05/01/2012
Brazil says natural gas finds on land herald a golden age of the energy resource and will likely reduce dependence on gas imports from Bolivia.
Brazil, like China, has seen energy consumption soar with industrialization and household consumption of energy increase with rising living standards, at least in some urban areas.
Brazil is battling crushing poverty affecting millions of its citizens, great disparities in household income and sprawling shanty towns in the midst of high-rise pockets of plenty.
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