The president from Brazil in a message to the United Nations Economic and Social Council in an extraordinary meeting in New York to treat on the alimentary crisis, today attacked again against the oil companies for wanting to “demonize” the biofuels.

CITY OF BUENOS AIRES (Urgente 24). In a message directed to the president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) and permanent representative of Haiti, ambassador Leo Merores, the president from Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, questioned the position of the oil multinationals in front of the biofuels again, sector in which Brazil leads the production, consumption and exportation of sugar cane ethanol.Â

“It is necessary to expose the campaigns moved by the commercial protectionism and by the interests of oil groups, that seek to demonize the biofuels production”, Lula pointed out in the official statement diffused by the Presidency and reproduced by the agency EFE.Â

For Lula, the oil companies attribute on the biofuels “the blame for the rise in the price of the foods and for the global heating and they ignore, with that, the successful brazilian experience with the ethanol, made of sugar cane.”Â

Lula invited rulers and scientists to participate of the International Conference of the Biofuels, that will be held in November of this year in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.¼br /> The ruler insisted that the renewable fuel is a development alternative for the poor countries and he denied that Brazil has the intention of imposing its model over the other ones, because “each country has its reality.”Â

In Brazil it is obligatory the mixture up to a 25% of the ethanol to the naphtha and almost 90% of the new fleet of light automobiles comes equipped with the “flex” system that allows combustion with ethanol, naphtha or the combination of both.¼br /> The biodiesel produced of soya and oleaginous as the sunflower, as long as, it is blended starting from this year in an obligatory way, in a 2%, to the derived diesel of the petroleum.Â

“The adopted models in a critical way, can help to rescue countries of the alimentary and energetic insecurity”, Lula asserted, who defended again that the rise of the petroleum, the subsidies to the production and the change in the nutritious habits are responsible for the shortage and ascent in the price of the foods.Â

Source: Urgente 24