This is not an exaggerated figure, it is very prudent. I thought enough about this after the meeting with President Bush's North American car manufacturers.
The idea left to convert food into fuel is finally confirmed as the economic line of foreign policy of the United States Last Monday, March 26.
A statement from the AP news agency in North America that reaches all corners of the world, reads:
"WASHINGTON, March 26 (AP). President George W. Bush Monday praised the benefits of cars that run on ethanol and biodiesel, in a meeting with manufacturers of automobiles, in which he sought to boost its plans on alternative fuels. "
" Bush said an agreement between the domestic auto industry leaders to duplicate the production of alternative fuel vehicles contribute to the abandonment, by motorists, the engines that run on gasoline and reduce the country's dependence on imported oil. "
" This is a great advancement in the country, Bush said inspecting three alternative vehicles. If the nation wants to reduce gasoline consumption, the consumer must be able to make a rational decision. "
" The president urged Congress to quickly approve legislation that the government has recently proposed to arrange the use of 132,000 million gallons of alternative fuels by 2017 and to impose the most stringent standards for fuel efficiency in automobiles. "
" Bush met with Chairman of the Board and Director General Richard Wagoner of General Motors, with the director Alan Mulally, Ford Motor and the Chrysler Group CEO Tom LaSorda of Daimler Chrysler. "
" The participants discussed measures to support the production of flex-fuel vehicles Alternatively, the purpose of producing ethanol from sources like grass or sawdust, and a proposed 20% reduction in gasoline consumption in 10 years. "
" The discussions were conducted in a time when increased the price of gasoline. The latest study by the organization Lundberg Survey showed the national average price of gasoline has risen 6 cents per gallon (3.78 liters) in the last two weeks. "
I think that reducing and moreover recycling all motors that use electricity and fuel is an elemental and urgent need for all humanity. The tragedy is not to reduce this energy consumption, but the idea of \u200b\u200bconverting food into fuel.
now know with precision that one ton of corn can only produce 413 liters of ethanol on average.
The average price of corn in U.S. ports reaches $ 167 a ton. Therefore need 320 million tons of corn to produce 35 billion gallons of ethanol.
According to the FAO crop of corn in the U.S. 2005 has reached 280.2 million tonnes.
Although the President has talked about producing fuel from grass or wood shavings, anyone who understands that words are totally lacking in realism. Understand well: 35 billion gallons means a 35 followed by nine zeros!
will also fine examples of what they will get in the productivity per man per hectare of U.S. farmers experienced and well organized: corn converted into ethanol, the residue of that corn converted into animal feed with 26% protein, the droppings of Livestock used as feedstock for the production of gas. This is undoubtedly only the scope of the most powerful enterprises, in which everything must move based on the consumption of electricity and fuels. Apply this formula to Third World countries and see how many people of the hungry masses of our planet will cease to consume corn. Or worse: to finance the poor countries to produce ethanol from corn or any other type of food and will not be a single tree to defend humanity from climate change.
Other rich countries of the world plan to use not only corn but also wheat, sunflower, rapeseed and other foods to the production of fuels. For Europeans, for example, would be a deal to import whole soybeans in the world to reduce the cost of fuel for its cars and feed his animals with residues of this legume, particularly rich in all essential amino acids.
In Cuba, alcohol was produced as a byproduct of the sugar industry, having made three extractions of sugar from cane juice. Climate change is already affecting our sugar production. Long periods of drought alternating with record rainfall, which produce sugar with an adequate return in just one hundred days, the days of our very moderate winter, so that missing or cane sugar per ton of cane per hectare due to lack of drought sustained in the months of planting and cultivation. In Venezuela
know who will be using alcohol not for export but to improve the environmental quality of its fuel. Therefore, regardless of the excellent Brazilian technology for producing alcohol, in Cuba the use of this technology for direct production of alcohol starting with the cane juice is no longer a dream or a delirium of those who delude themselves with this idea. In our country, the land devoted to direct production of alcohol can be much more useful in the production of food for the people and protecting the environment.
All countries, rich and poor, without exception, could save trillions of dollars in investment and fuel simply by replacing all incandescent bulbs with fluorescent bulbs, which Cuba has made in all corners of the country. This is a breath to resist climate change without killing the poor masses of hunger in the world.
As you can see, I do not use adjectives to describe the system and the masters of the world. Perform this task excellently know experts in information and socio-economic sciences and the men of honest politicians who abound in the world and constantly rummage in the present and future of our species. Just a computer and the growing number of Internet networks.
Today we are seeing for the first time really globalized economy and a dominant power in the economic, political and military does not resemble anything in the Rome of the emperors.
Some will wonder why I speak of hunger and thirst. My answer: it is not the other side of the same coin, but different faces of the other currencies, as if they were a die with 6 faces or a polyhedron with many more.
I refer now to an official news agency, founded in 1945 and usually well informed about economic and social issues in the world: TELAM. He literally said:
"Within just 18 years some 2 billion people will live in countries and regions where the water will be a distant memory. Two-thirds of the world population could live in places where this shortage will produce social and economic tensions of such magnitude to bring the peoples at war for the precious "blue gold".
"Over the past 100 years, water consumption has increased at a rate more than twice the rate of population growth."
"According to the statistics of the World Water Council (WWC is its abbreviation in English), it is estimated that by 2015 the number of inhabitants affected by this serious situation to reach the 3.5 billion people. "
" The United Nations celebrated World Water Day 23 March, has invited to address this same day, the world water shortage under the coordination of the 'United Nations Organization for Agriculture and Food (FAO), with the aim of emphasizing the increasing importance of water shortage in the world and the need for greater integration and cooperation that allow for efficient and sustainable management of water resources. "
" Many regions of the planet suffer from severe water shortages, living with less than 500 cubic meters per person per year. The regions are suffering from this chronic shortage any more time. "
" The main consequences of water scarcity are insufficient quantities of this precious liquid for producing food, the impossibility of industrial development, urban, tourist and problems of health. "
This concludes the press agency TELAM.
I refrain from mentioning other important facts in this case, such as melting glaciers in Greenland and the Antarctic, damage the ozone layer and increasing the amount of mercury in many species of fish consumption habitable.
There are other issues that can be addressed, but with these lines I just want to comment on President Bush's meeting with executives of major U.S. automotive companies.
March 28, 2007 Fidel Castro