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White_Male_Canada
04-09-2007, 06:33 AM
Just too damn amusing 8) :


Cuba and Venezuela turn against ethanol


· Castro and Chávez attack US backing for biofuels
· Leaders say diverting crops for fuel starves poor

Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent
Saturday April 7, 2007
The Guardian


Cuba and Venezuela have launched an offensive against biofuels, warning that the US-backed rush towards ethanol will worsen global hunger and poverty.

Fidel Castro has written two newspaper articles in a week voicing alarm at the prospect of countries boosting sugar and corn crops to make ethanol, a fuel that can be used an additive or a substitute for petrol.

By diverting crops to feed cars rather than people, the price of food would rise and the world's poor would go hungry, Mr Castro wrote in the Communist party's official newspaper, Granma.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,2052042,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

North_of_60
04-09-2007, 02:46 PM
It is true. Fueling cars with agriculture is a nonsense. The earth just cannot support this kind of economy.

The price of the flat corn bread, the main source of calories for many poor Mexicans, recently rose by over 400%. (...) some blame the rise on demand for corn to make environmentally-friendly biofuels in the United States.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6319093.stm

guyone
04-09-2007, 05:47 PM
Man with the left you just can't win!

North_of_60
04-09-2007, 09:07 PM
And what does being from the left or right has to do with the price of the tortilla ?

guyone
04-10-2007, 05:37 PM
Heh heh heh.