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008			260224s2009 xxu
100	1		_aMathews, John A. _940015
100	1		_aGoldsztein, Hugo _940486
245	0	0	_aCapturing latecomer advantages in the adoption of biofuels _bThe case of Argentina
260			_cene. 2009
270			_a05/03/2009 ; 05/03/2009
300			_a11 p. ; 326-337
520			_aTranscripción del resúmen publicado por el autor: Although Argentina came late to the biofuels revolution, a series of measures taken recently at federal and provincial government level have created new opportunities. New federal laws on biofuels promotion have sparked an investment boom. The main activity has been in the biodiesel sector—partly because diesel is the dominant fuel sector in Argentina, and partly because the country had already engineered a soy revolution over the past 15 years, becoming the world's largest exporter of soy oil and soy meal. Biodiesel allows this revolution to be extended—from soy as foodstuff to soy as fuelstock. The biodiesel revolution now underway promises to extend Argentina's latecomer advantages by combining greater scale and lower costs with introduced technical innovations such as genetically modified crops and no-till farming. In this way, Argentina can be seen to be demonstrating the superiority of biofuel production in countries of the South over the conditions obtaining in countries of the North—including superior resources availability, superior energetics and lower costs. Whereas Brazil has demonstrated its superiority in sugarcane-based ethanol, Argentina is about to demonstrate its superiority in soy-based biodiesel.
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650		0	_aArgentina _9442
650		0	_aBiodiesel _91163
773	0		_tEnergy Policy _g37
942			_cARTICULO
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