Castro Blasts U.S. Biofuel Plans in Article

[Rhino]

Castro Blasts U.S. Biofuel Plans in Article

Thursday, March 29, 2007

HAVANA — Fidel Castro lashes out against U.S. biofuel plans in an op-ed piece published Thursday, a sign Cuba's 80-year-old leader may be taking a more active role in public affairs after months sidelined by a still undisclosed illness.

The article is written in the same kind of apocalyptic style Castro typically adopts when discussing the impact of U.S. international policies on developing nations, and there was no reason to doubt he was the author.

President Bush's support for using crops to produce ethanol for cars could deplete food stocks in developing nations, the article in the Communist Party daily Granma asserts.

The headline reads: "Condemned to Premature Death by Hunger and Thirst more than 3 Billion People of the World."

"This isn't an exaggerated number; it is actually cautious," says the article distributed by e-mail early Thursday to international correspondents by foreign ministry officials......http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262240,00.html

No. No exaggeration at all. http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/drunk000.gif

[Suzie]

He's just worried he won't have anything for those 1950's cars they have been gluing together for the past 40 years. He doesn't care if anyone starves.

[PaulRevere]

Gee, either ethanol must be a really good deal, or Castro is just beating the US piniata with a false issue again, showing he's not as dead as everyone thinks.

[DoctorDoom]

The libs now have a quandary: they worship Castro, but they also advocate biofuels.

:popcorn:

[PaulRevere]

biofools

[Suzie]

The libs now have a quandary: they worship Castro, but they also advocate biofuels.

:popcorn:

Better slow down on that popcorn Doc. It's gonna cost ya a fortune. ;)

[Sabbah]

The libs now have a quandary: they worship Castro, but they also advocate biofuels.

:popcorn:

For a country the size of Britan to supply its fuel demands would require something like 5 time its arable land in bio oil production.

Anyone who advocates biofuels as an answer is a moron or willing to exploit third world land with the results Castro predicts.

[DeclinetoState]

Like a broken clock that's right twice a day, Castro makes a sensible argument for once. But notice, as DoctorDoom has pointed out, that he's rebutting a liberal argument.

With our luck, Castro will see the light and renounce communism as the disaster that it has been on his island and elsewhere--but then he'll croak.