In a recent editorial in the Gramm Fidel Castro had a number of comments about environmentalism and energy policy essentially commenting on the new push for Ethanol as an alternative fuel. Even he gets the reality of the situation.
“More than three billion people in the world are being condemned to a premature death from hunger and thirst” by the diversion of food into the energy market. Meanwhile, he argues, rising prices for energy-appropriate grains will unleash a frenzy of land clearance in the Third World, doing more to harm the climate than replacing traditional gasoline will do to help. (The Western Standard, 6/3/07)
Ethanol isn’t an answer.
