[Sustain] Castro Blasts US Biofuel Plans

[Dennis Brumm]

Castro Blasts President Bush's Bio-Fuel Plans
(CBS4) HAVANA Fidel Castro has lashed out against President Bush and
his plans for an increased use of U.S. bio-fuels.

The article, appearing in the Communist Party daily Granma, claims
that President Bush's support for using crops to produce ethanol for
cars could deplete food stocks in developing nations. Many see the op-
ed piece published Thursday as a sign that the 80-year-old Cuban
leader is trying to take a more active role in public affairs after
months sidelined by a still undisclosed illness.

Castro quotes extensively from a Washington-datelined story by The
Associated Press reporting on a meeting Monday between Bush and U.S.
automakers and their comments about using corn to create ethanol as
an alternative to fossil fuels.

"The sinister idea of converting food into combustible was
definitively established as the economic line of the foreign policy
of the United States," he writes.

The Cuban leader also notes that Cuba has also experimented with
extracting ethanol from sugarcane.

"But if rich nations decide to import huge amounts of traditional
food crops such as corn from developing countries to help meet their
energy needs, it could have disastrous consequences for the
world's poor," Castro writes...

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