Castro: Biofuels an american auto-maker conspiracy...!

[IglooDame]

The irony is, there's waaay more than enough food to go around, but shipping it all over the world takes... fuel.

 

[Che Guava]

Oooooh the IRONY!

 

[Urederra]

I think he is just paying Chavez a favor or two, Since Venezuela's economy is totally based on oil.

 

[Taliesin]

The notion that American auto-makers are perpetrating a cunning conspiracy is simply refuted by noting that they can't even perpetrate a decent automobile.

 

[Mise]

The irony is, there's waaay more than enough food to go around, but shipping it all over the world takes... fuel.

Exactly. Add to that that poor farmers can make a small fortune selling biofuels to America, which they can use to ..... BUY FOOD ..... and you have a singularly stupid remark from someone who by all rights should have died 638 times by now.

 

[Knowltok]

The notion that American auto-makers are perpetrating a cunning conspiracy is simply refuted by noting that they can't even perpetrate a decent automobile.

Too true.

Which obviously means that the damn japanese are really the culprits. Time for the first Cuban-Japanese war!

 

[Masquerouge]

I think it's obvious that Global Warming is once again proven false, after all Bjorn Lomborg showed that biofuels would actually pollute more than regular fuels.

But of course the scientific community is not promoting these numbers...

/roleplaying.

 

[Abaddon]

*waits for someone to take the bait*

 

[Urederra]

I think it's obvious that Global Warming is once again proven false, after all Bjorn Lomborg showed that biofuels would actually pollute more than regular fuels.

But of course the scientific community is not promoting these numbers...

Oh, please, don't start this over again. Lomborg is a loony and he has been discredited by well known scientific journals like Scientific American.

Please read some non right wing propaganda.

http://www.cdfe.org/scientific.htm

 

[innonimatu]

Has anyone here actually read the original article?
He does make one point: the current american corn crop is insufficient to meet the biofuel targets Bush set, that's basically his argument. While it can be increased, higher prices are inevitable.

I can add that already the mexicans have felt the impact of that. Mexico used to produce much of its corn, but a large monopolistic company (GRUMA) has succeeded (with government complicity) in controlling the market, and currently imports a lot of corn and has taken control over most of the local production also. Tortillas are the staple foot eaten by most of the poor (average, actually) mexicans. Oddly white corn's price is indexed to that of yellow corn, and has risen accordingly, making tortillas unaffordable to many mexicans. And the move to produce ethanol from corn is just starting.

And his rant is also about the embargo. Cuba's main cash crop has always been sugar, which much better to produce ethanol from that corn.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

CATCH! It seems that someone did bite in .

My understanding is that making ethanol from corn is not very efficient. Same thing here in Finland with some weed crops. Even burning them for electricity would be much more efficient than distilling ethanol. Same thing applies to oil - making electricity on big plants vs. refining it and burning gas on every car.

Of course, then electric cars are needed if that energy is to used for transportation. Ethanol can be used on old cars / mixed w/gas, thats its main advantage. Its more portable than electrity too .. (and it has some interesting effects when digested).

 

[amadeus]

So they must have made a few tape recordings of the old bastard before he kicked the bucket then.