Methinks that Hugo promises too much. How does he know what supply or demand conditions will be 100 years from now?
He may be right about ethanol, but shouldn't we be figuring out how to replace gasoline? On 4/11/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aFlVHjbs2d5w&refer=latin_america> Chavez Guarantees Latin American Energy Supply for 100 Years By Theresa Bradley April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for the creation of a Latin American energy system to prioritize local markets in a ``true energy revolution,'' guaranteeing oil and gas supply to the region for 100 years. ``All the oil and energy that Latin America needs is here in Venezuela,'' Chavez said tonight at a graduation ceremony in Caracas. ``That resource, once in the hands of the empire, is now in Venezuelan hands, and we have it to share with the people of Cuba and the Caribbean, Nicaragua and Central America, Brazil and South America, at least for 100 years.'' Chavez called proposals by U.S. President George W. Bush to substitute gasoline with ethanol in a bid to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil, ``true craziness'' that ``go against nature'' and threaten the region's poorest inhabitants. ``To produce the ethanol necessary to replace the gasoline that the U.S. alone consumes, we'd have to plant almost all the land on this continent with corn or sugar cane -- not to feed people, but to feed the cars of the U.S. empire,'' he said. ``That's craziness.'' Chavez said the U.S. proposal would never sabotage relations between Venezuela and its ethanol-producing neighbor, Brazil, as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has offered ``serious'' bio-fuel plans that are in fact different from what Bush has led the world to believe. ``We'll never fight with Brazil on this, we'll never fight with Lula,'' Chavez said. ``The world press says, `It's `Fidel and Chavez against Bush and Lula.' No, it's not like that. It's Fidel and Chavez against the U.S. empire.''
-- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
