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If it uses corn-based ethanol, it is accused of causing people to starve. (Also, environmentalists argue that increasing use of farmland decreases biodiversity).
What a lose-lose situation.
Ha, ha! Our fault that people are starving in Cuba because we don't produce enough food.
Well Mr. Castro, I wonder how many Cubans will be saved by your death alone? How much longer btw?
We should just take over cuba, make it a nice resort town, suck all the oil out and take all the sugar cane for ethanol the hippies want to buy.
Hell, it's a lot closer than iraq.
They must have given old Fidel a bunghole transplant.
Fidel is known to be a voracious reader with an outstanding memory for detail and minutae. He should know, undoubtedly knows, that extracting ethanol from corn for example, does not preclude using the remainder as animal feed. It's not an all-or-none scenario for that.
Hahahahahahaha! I keep thinking about this hippie chick I got into an argument with about running cars on alcohol. Ha! Even Castro is against it. I wish I would have known that and could have included that in my arguments. She would have been speechless. Save the planet and starve the humans!
Can we make biodiesel out of Castro?
somebody tell Castro, that tobacco is not food.
Let me get this right. Half of the world's population is going to starve starting tomorrow morning if I fill up with E-85? Bwahahahaha!
Them damn narcotics have made Fidel null and void.
Castro has a point.
Using food for fuel is dumb. Make the world dependent upon us for food and then use food as a weapon. (The Middle East does this with oil, we should do this with food.)
Does the United States, or Canada, have some sort of "duty" to feed the rest of the world with our successful, productive farmlands? It was to the advantage of our farmers to sell surplusses of grain to Red China and the USSR back in the old days, but if they can find better paying markets for it, why wouldn't they take advantage of it? It's not our fault that various socialist countries around the world are consistenly unable to feed themselves (ie "40 years of bad harvests").
The funny thing is, I agree with him - turning valuable foodstuff into fuel is not viable in the long run, IMO, and is mostly only profitable to farmers due to subsidies.
Well, gosh. Now I'm torn.
On the one hand, I think using food crops to produce fuel is stupid. On the other hand, anything Castro is against, I am for.
What a pickle ...
Using corn as a feedstock for ethanol is not the most efficient usage of surplus farmland.
But until some better fuel technologies and farming techniques come along, it is a good start.
And I really don't give a rip about Fidel's point of view. I grew up in Miami, and have a lot of Cuban friends. Screw him.
Holy cow, I agree with El Presdiente.
Fidel is pissed because his buddy Hugo is not getting any money from biofuels.
As for hunger, I don't think hunger has been caused by low food production in over a century. Famine in the 20th century was typically caused by politics. Just ask the Ukrainians.