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Isn't Brazil one of those countries that makes 90% of it's own fuel and has hardly any imports for oil?

yeah,but the Oil that we have has different quality from the one found in Iran and contries down there , so we have to Import a bit

and Gasoline price is a bit high, Alchol was a good option, but now its getting expensive as Gasoline, not to mention that we extract our own Gas(especially my State) to use in Ovens, and the price its reaching the clouds.
my City has also 2 Nuclear PowerPlant(+1 under construction), and again, abusive prices lol

I thought you guys made most of your fuel from sugar cane, not from domestic oil production?

We have both options:D, Etanol(Alchol, actually use 20% of gasoline), Gasoline & Vehicular Natural Gas(GNV)

too bad the guy who does the actual labor who sweats and breaks his back gets paid the least, while the people who sit on their ass get paid the most. corporations own all of us. if teachers made $200,000 a year, education in U.S would be a job that everyone wanted so the best candidates would be the teachers, why cant a guy who picks strawberries in the hot sun make as much as a computer science major? physical work vs mental work? wtf is the difference, both are hard jobs that require a lot of time and patience. we need some sort of system that balances everything, (communism haha jk) this is why i quit college, i got fed up with people only wanting to pay people that want to sit on their ass.

too bad the guy who does the actual labor who sweats and breaks his back gets paid the least, while the people who sit on their ass get paid the most. corporations own all of us. if teachers made $200,000 a year, education in U.S would be a job that everyone wanted so the best candidates would be the teachers, why cant a guy who picks strawberries in the hot sun make as much as a computer science major? physical work vs mental work? wtf is the difference, both are hard jobs that require a lot of time and patience. we need some sort of system that balances everything, (communism haha jk) this is why i quit college, i got fed up with people only wanting to pay people that want to sit on their ass.

The fact of the matter is you get paid based on how hard you are to replace. Almost anyone can do physical labor, but not everyone can be a computer programmer, you need to go to school for that.

As far as the topic goes, I'm sick of idiot spoiled Americans proclaiming their great county is shit just because it's not perfect. It's stupid beyond belief.

As far as it goes for me I wouldnt consider myself a "spoiled American proclaiming my country is shit" As i said before i wouldnt want to live anywhere else. I'd rather fix the issues that this country has and you cannot deny it has issues. First step to solving a problem is knowing and admitting the problem. Not just turn the other cheek and ignore them and say the country is not in trouble because it is.

The U.S. has many problems. Corrupt and useless government, too much corporate influence, student loan crisis, etc. I never said it didn't have issues, that's not what this topic is about.

 I never said you were one of the spoiled Americans, but Archi seems to be, and his comments are basically what this topic is about.

The fact of the matter is you get paid based on how hard you are to replace. Almost anyone can do physical labor, but not everyone can be a computer programmer, you need to go to school for that.

As far as the topic goes, I'm sick of idiot spoiled Americans proclaiming their great county is shit just because it's not perfect. It's stupid beyond belief.

if a person is educated, why should they make more than someone that is not. what gives them the right to have a better life and have more opportuinites. u read alot of books now you get the most comfortable life (stupid) thats like saying if your handicapped or mentally retarded you dont deserve to have a nice life since you are incapable of being smart or educated (not all handicapped people are incapable of learning but the ones who are). since our country is so set on having the highest standards then make the right choice and even the playing field between blue collar and white collar jobs. it all has to do with our schools i think. schools recieve money for how well they do in testing. if you go to a school in wealthy city of the  country their test scores are high so they get alot of money. if you go to a school in a poor city their test scores will be low in which they recienve less money. now doesnt it seem that if a schools test scores/dropout rate is negative, wouldnt it be wiser to give more money to the schools that need more help? rather than giving more to the schools that are already exceeding in test scores and parent donations?

if a person is educated, why should they make more than someone that is not. what gives them the right to have a better life and have more opportuinites. u read alot of books now you get the most comfortable life (stupid) thats like saying if your handicapped or mentally retarded you dont deserve to have a nice life since you are incapable of being smart or educated (not all handicapped people are incapable of learning but the ones who are). since our country is so set on having the highest standards then make the right choice and even the playing field between blue collar and white collar jobs. it all has to do with our schools i think. schools recieve money for how well they do in testing. if you go to a school in wealthy city of the  country their test scores are high so they get alot of money. if you go to a school in a poor city their test scores will be low in which they recienve less money. now doesnt it seem that if a schools test scores/dropout rate is negative, wouldnt it be wiser to give more money to the schools that need more help? rather than giving more to the schools that are already exceeding in test scores and parent donations?

If I spend a ton of money and time studying to be an engineer, why the hell would I get paid the same as some filed worker who didn't spend nearly as much time and money learning to do their job? I would have ten times the amount of skills they have and I worked hard to learn my trade. Why on earth would anyone spend the time and money to get a complex job when they can just get a labor job that pays the same? it doesn't make sense. You get paid for how hard you are to replace, and that's how it should be.