Castro - Rightfully - Blasts US Food-To-Ethanol Scheme

via bbc news :

Castro hits out at US biofuel use

Cuban President Fidel Castro has strongly criticised the use of
biofuels by the US, in his first article since undergoing surgery last
year.

He said George W Bush's support for the use of food crops in fuel
production would cause 3bn deaths from hunger.

The article in the Granma newspaper did not mention Mr Castro's
health.

Officials say they expect Mr Castro - who temporarily handed over
power to his brother last July - to resume activities in government
soon.

Last month, Mr Castro appeared in a live radio broadcast for the first
time since falling ill.

The Cuban leader's failure to appear in public - and the silence from
the Cuban authorities - had fuelled speculation about the seriousness
of his condition.

Mr Castro's article appears in Thursday's edition of Granma, under the
headline: "Condemned to premature death by hunger and thirst more than
3bn people of the world."

In it, he says he has been "meditating quite a bit since President
Bush's meeting with North American automobile makers".

During that meeting on Monday, Mr Castro writes, "the sinister idea of
converting food into combustibles was definitively established as the
economic line of foreign policy of the United States".

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For once, I'll have to agree with Castro. It's the height of
decadence to turn needed food into alcohol just so soccer moms
can keep driving those gigantic SUVs down to McDonalds. Better
to restrict the sale of anything that gets under 30 mpg to
licenced contractors, farmers and such. Make them "commercial
ONLY" vehicles and be PICKY about it. Get Ms. Soccer Moms gas
hog OFF the road. Feed the hungry, not her gas hog.

Run the low-mileage vehicles off the road and into the salvage
yard and we won't NEED to turn food into fuel. We wouldn't even
have to import fuel from our "friends" in the middle east.

Oh, it WAS precious the other day when I heard some soccer mom
bitching about the return of high gas prices, as she walked
back to her shiny new 2007 "Expedition". I think the only
"expeditions" she took were to the ice-cream stand and the
hair-dresser, apparently impossible in anything less than
a three-ton 9-mpg monstrosity.

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