Sometime in the future oil reserves will be exhausted. It is never too early to find new, clean and renewable energy reserves. Enter ethanol. A so called green alternative. Turn corn, tree bark, soy beans, into fuel that will power our cars. But when Bush has discovered ethanol and says it's the future, something must be wrong.
The choice is: food for the people or food for the cars.
Rising from his sick bed, comrade Fidel Castro, has a very important point to make (Counterpunch: Biofuels and Global Hunger). The U.S. is expanding corn production to turn it into ethanol, Bush is pushing Brazil to do its part. China plans to create a forest the size of England to produce biofuels. In the U.S., there are 114 ethanol plants, with another 80 under construction, expanding total ethanol capacity from 5.4 billion gallons last year to 8.5 billion gallons this year.
Castro is right, if foodstuffs are turned into fuels, millions will go hungry. If Bush touches something, it must be wrong. Stop the ethanol craze! (The Wall Street Journal: Big Corn Crop May Not Curb Prices)
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