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2007-04-05 Caribbean-Latin America

Castro says US energy policies leading to 'holocaust'

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder if Castro would hamper the Cuban economy with this. If he had one, that is.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-05 03:03|| 2007-04-05 03:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Gorb, he's pissed. There are possibly significant deposits of oil south-west of Cuba's coast and Bush now comes with this ethanol idea.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-04-05 04:29|| 2007-04-05 04:29|| Front Page Top

#3 We can use this. Personally, I'm going out and getting me one-ton pickup that runs on ethanol. I'll go on long road trips up and down mountains. In first gear. With the brakes on. And Rosie in the back when going uphill if it will pull her (she can roll down the other side and I'll catch up with her at the bottom because I wouldn't want her behind me going downhill). And I'll pay high prices for the ethanol, too! And I'll send Castro a Christmas card every year with a picture of my pickup being followed around by an ethanol tanker until he dies of a heart attack looking at it.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-05 04:39|| 2007-04-05 04:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, just make sure that tanker is labeled Brazilian Sugar Ethanol, and tack on a picture of the Amazon forest being burned by sugar cane farmers for more land. CC to Greenpeace.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-05 09:29|| 2007-04-05 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 It's pretty simple, actually: if ethanol takes off, the value of Hugo's oil goes down, and Hugo has less money to prop Fidel up with.

Posted by Mike 2007-04-05 10:14|| 2007-04-05 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Can we keep the bureau of Alk Tab and Firearms away from the pure eth.

Let both people and cars sip from the same broth instead of this stupid "lets poison every vice without a tax stamp" bs?

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-05 11:22|| 2007-04-05 11:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Whaddya you care, Fidel? You'll be dead anyways...

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-05 12:12|| 2007-04-05 12:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Cuba has sugar and Brazilian sugar-based ethonal is ten times better than corn-based ethonal our US farmers are pushing. He'd simply prefer Chavez's oil wealth to cause the problems in Latin America rather than have his own country prosper even a little.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-05 13:14|| 2007-04-05 13:14|| Front Page Top

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