Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that if he is re-elected on Oct. 2, he will try to make his country a stronghold of offshore wind energy in the coming years.
“Brazil is doing very well economically and is a world power in food production and exports.”
“Soon we will be a clean energy power with offshore wind,” the president told thousands of supporters during a campaign rally in Campinas, in the state of São Paulo (southeast).
Brazil, with a coastline of 8,000 kilometers, is exploring the installation of offshore wind energy towers without obstacles.
Bolsonaro, Liberal Party (right) candidate for re-election, defended his government’s energy policies.
He was particularly invested in Congress’s measures to reduce regional and federal fuel taxes to lower consumer costs.
“We have the cheapest gasoline in the world, under 5 reais (US$0.95) per liter, we are an example to the world, and we have a growing economy,” Bolsonaro said.
The president added that Brazil would experience deflation for the third consecutive month in September, due to measures taken to reduce regional fuel taxes.
Brazil recorded deflation of 0.68 percent in July and 0.36 percent in August.
Year-to-date, the broad consumer price index (IPCA, the main official rate) is 4.39 percent, while inflation was 8.73 percent in the 12 months through August.
Bolsonaro is second in voting intentions for the October elections, 14 points behind former president (2003-2010) and Workers’ Party (PT, left) candidate Luiz Lula da Silva, according to the poll by the Datafolha Institute.