Venezuela-London oil deal helps 250,000 poor Londoners

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Liberal alert: Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez have declared biofuels bad. You have to protest them now.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/...rc=rss&feed=12

By diverting crops to feed cars rather than people, the price of food would rise and the world's poor would go hungry, Mr Castro wrote...3 billion people would die prematurely of hunger and thirst.

Mr Chávez also expressed dismay. "When you fill a vehicle's tank with ethanol, you are filling it with energy for which land and water enough to feed seven people have been used.

Until recently, Cuba and Venezuela were enthusiastic about the fuel and with Brazil's help planned to jointly build sugar mills and ethanol plants, hitching the Caribbean to the "green" fuel bandwagon.

That changed after the US president, George Bush, touted his support for ethanol during a tour of Latin America last month

Let's see how the greenies handle this little conundrum.