| Energy use increased 1.9 percent from a year earlier to the equivalent of 9.52 million kiloliters of oil in September, the Bureau of Energy said on its Web site. |
| The use of petroleum, which includes crude and fuel oil, more than doubled to 23.3 million kiloliters, or 147 million barrels, according to the federation. |
| Energy use rose 5.8 percent from a year earlier to the equivalent of 9.83 million kiloliters of oil in August, the Bureau of Energy said yesterday. |
| Brazil produced about 25,000 kiloliters of ethanol in 2008, and exported about 15 percent. |
| The nation added more than 34 billion kiloliters of ethanol to gasoline in 2008, using 3.2 billion bushels of corn. |
| That's because, each day, Earth's atmosphere recycles billions of kiloliters of salty seawater and turns it into fresh water. |
