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... <http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_088092230.html>http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_088092230.html