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2/11/2008, "Bloomberg slams U.S. energy law over corn ethanol" Reuters by Louis Charbonneau and Timothy Gardner
"Cuban leader Fidel Castro blasted the Bush administration's biofuels policy as "genocidal" in a series of articles last year, saying
they threatened to worsen global hunger by pushing up prices for food crops used to make ethanol....
A new U.S. energy law will cause
an increase in global food prices and lead to starvation deaths worldwide because it continues to promote corn ethanol, New
York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday.
"People literally will starve to death in parts of the
world, it always happens when food prices go up," Bloomberg
told reporters after addressing a U.N. General Assembly debate
on climate change.
The new U.S. law, which came into force late last year,
increased fivefold the required amount of blending of biofuels
like corn ethanol -- creating higher demand for the grain that
will push up corn prices."...
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