Havana, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President
Fidel Castro criticized on Thursday "the sinister
idea of turning food into fuel," which was
definitively established as an economic line of the
US foreign policy.
"I think reducing and also recycling all engines
that consume electricity and fuel is an elemental
and urgent need of all humanity," stated the Cuban
Revolution leader in an article published in Granma
newspaper today.
It is a tragedy to turn food into fuel, warned
the text entitled "Over three billion people in the
world condemned to premature death due to starvation
and thirst."
This is not an exaggerated, rather cautious
figure, said Fidel Castro, who mentions in his
comment the meeting President George W. Bush held
with US car manufacturers on March 26.
According to a press release, participants in the
meeting discussed a group of measures to support the
production of cars with alternative fuel and
attempts to develop ethanol from grass or sawdust.
The Cuban president explains that with one ton of
corn we can only produce 109 gallons of ethanol, so
we need about 320 million tons of that grain to
produce 35 billion gallons of ethanol.
In the case of Cuba, the statesman said, "those
lands dedicated to the direct production of alcohol
can be much more useful to produce food for the
people and to protect the environment."
Fidel Castro also highlighted that all countries
of the world, rich and poor, could save millions of
dollars in investment and fuel by just changing
incandescent for energy-saving light bulbs,
something which has been carried out in all the
island s homes.
el HABANERO