Fidel: Energy Revolution Ignited
President Fidel Castro underscored the advantages Cuba´s energy revolution and alerted of the exhaustion of world oil reserves.

At Friday ´s Round Table program, Fidel stated the country needed a faultless energy system with enough generation capacity.

Regarding the running energy change process, started May 2004 when the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant broke down, he said it´s running well and will save a billion dollars a year.

The Cuban dignitary criticized the idea of building more thermoelectric or electronuclear plants to supply power while stressing the necessity to seek new methods such massive introduction of generators and wind power.

"Current global oil reserves are drying up," emphasized the head of state, questioning the consumer model of wealthy nations such the US, where 8.6 million oil barrels are wasted every day.

Likewise, he condemned the first world´s monopoly on nuclear energy that impedes underdeveloped nations from acquiring that technology to generate electricity and replace oil.