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Speech pronounced by the President of the Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, in the delivery of 101 vehicles to the Electrical Union, conducted in the National Electrical Union, the 5 of May of 2006.



(Taquigr?ficas Versions - Advice of State)



(It raised without announcing to it him to the tribune)



That is for saving work to him to the presenter, and we go more express, although already the sun burned a little to us.

They feel, companions.

Only days ago we spoke with certain amplitude of the power revolution. Today we continued speaking of the power revolution, but in its other variant, that is in the variant of the fuel saving, although it assumes that this act is for a most important activity that must be made to save electrical energy. The two variants meet for that reason.

All those vehicles are going to lend a considerable benefit in the electricity saving, and simultaneously he is one of the first and more important passages in the saving of the fuel. They are two fundamental things.

I believe that the companions who have spoken here, and have done it very well, have been necessary and have been concrete - I talk about the Cuban companions; but also we listened with much satisfaction the representative of the Chinese company Great Wall, that is here helping us to prepare all the personnel who is going to use those equipment, and that simultaneously brought the very good news to us about the capacity of production of their factory and about the projects of extension; without a doubt, at some other moment we will need information, or we already needed it, about the meaning of which he spoke on two new cars.

I remained in the doubt if she talked about cars, like which they are cars also, because partly they are load light trucks, work light trucks, and some of them are, simultaneously, yipi and light truck, because they behind take another seat for two or three people, so that we could say that it is a light truck multipurpose, and surely the ambassador of the People's Republic of China successfully obtains the information to know which are those vehicles, because - as we said recently is a vital question for the humanity, all related to the production of vehicles and the all related one to the fuel saving, since in the world it is consumed nowadays -as many we know or we have heard daily speak 84 million petroleum barrels, consumption that grows of one to two million every year, single in the United States 8.6 million daily gasoline barrels are spent, and that country simultaneously consumes around 22 million daily fuel barrels, including gasoline and petroleum, the petroleum of which gasoline takes place, although they also concern gasoline of many countries.

They are colossal numbers, and something that is known and whenever I can I repeat it, is that the proven and probable reserves of fuel in the United States, that was growing until approximately 30 years ago - yes, the proven reserves grew and grew in that country, if my memory serves me right, up to a 1971-, eminent scientist and North American investigator verified, from the study of the petroleum production of his own country - an extensive country, of more than 8 or 9 million square kilometers, that all type of wealth had in its ground, aside from its earth, he studied all the program of petroleum production of the century last in the United States - last century that is very recent and drew the conclusion, you see you, that until year 1971 the reserves were growing and that as of that year they would begin to diminish in the United States, and simultaneously foretold that for the 2005, 2006, the reserves proven at world-wide level would begin to diminish, and that is what it is happening at this same moment, already is at world-wide level.

We, in one interview that did to us there for the Venezuelan television, spoke of the subject, and proven reserves and probable, the investigations and prognoses of the North American scientist, and he left from that. The exploration techniques were increased, were perfected very many since then. Those that we arrange now to look for our petroleum not they seem, they are incomparably better and more modern than those than we had 30 years ago; the machines to perforate now are much more efficient, faster, deeper, and are able to work vertically or in an inclined plane, to return to deepen or to change of direction, is things that nor dreamed then, this man was mistaken in a thing, and possibly is that, if these advances are taken into account all, perhaps the proven reserves would have lasted the more or perhaps they would have exhausted themselves before, of not existing these machines. But, good, that does not have any importance. The admirable thing is the previous precision whereupon that phenomenon.

We have added another thing, and is that in the forest it is easier to find an elephant that a rabbit. The great deposits have been already being them been looking for for short while: in the North Sea; in the Gulf of Mexico, where one assumes that it is left something still; back in the proximities of Argentina, that already have been looking for it for years by the zone of the Falklands. Aside from that 30 years were constructed in the last and they were put to perhaps work in the last 15 years more modern boats for the exploration.

Also it makes some tens of years began to construct the platforms to perforate in deep places, of hundreds of meters - they had to construct the platforms, they had to anchor them, and they were fixed platforms, and later they made modern?simos boats, like which it was exploring in the area of the gulf by agreement with Cuba, or in the area of our territorial seas, in the seas next to Cuba, but beyond the 12 miles, by all means, and that equipment had been constructed of almost perfect form to explore. It did not use anchor, it was located in a position through satellites and by means of a number of helices located in different directions it held the same position. Of course, always they threw something there towards the bottom, an equipment modern?simo to explore and other tasks.

Memory that was a documentary one on that. I do not know if Vicente and Yadira saw it, or our oil tankers or our electrical ones, because there is a very narrow association between electrical oil tankers and, since what they produce they he consumes an important part of our country, through the electrical ones, and when the electrical ones reduce that consumption, to the power resources will occur other uses them or they will be exported.

But well, all that equipment allows to make things incredible. Nor it is known, how many days lasted? Some of you remembers the exploration that that made that boat modern? In few weeks, if my memory serves me right, it did the exploration and everybody hoping to see what removed from there, how it was, if there were petroleum plans, of what petroleum, all that, and are much still necessary to perforate that way, because she is one of the very little areas average virgin that are. Petroleum ours we are removing it from the border of the coast and indeed perforating in a plane inclined with those modern machines of which, at this moment, we have eight working, and in the second semester of this year we will reach the number of 12 machines of that type perforating in search of accompanying gas of petroleum, would say almost almost that in the first place, to produce the electricity cheaper than today it produces the country, the one of the combined cycle.

On that there are many things also, are equipment, we have bought, we have a bought equipment of turbines that use that accompanying gas. Not always kilowatts has to be a plant of 30 000/hour, that is to say, turbines able to work with 000 motors of 1 kilowatts.

The turbines make them more and more efficient and with a greater advantage of the energy contained in one ton or a cubic meter, we say, the gas is moderate by cubic meters. A data that can be of interest for the population, because you know it, is that by each million cubic meters of that accompanying gas whom nothing costs, he was the one that was burned, in the combined cycle they are possible to be produced something more than 150 000 kilowatts and are machines that have a very high advantage, because it is not necessary to stop them, work with around 90% of operativity, as they call the electrical ones to him.

At the moment they are producing in Cuba around 300 000 kilowatts per hour and is gas, approximately, for about 320 000 kilowatts, and we hoped that for the next year more can be produced, because there is some excess.

Among other uses we have two thermoelectrial plants that work with petroleum, but can replace 30% of that oil fuel or that petroleum by accompanying gas, which allows that one of those plants that can spend 240 grams by kilowatt of oil fuel, for example, spends only 180 grams, if they accompany it with that 30% by accompanying gas by petroleum.

It said to them that we looked for that gas more than petroleum, although in the petroleum search is appearing petroleum with upper combustion level, with more API.

Here it is being operated until the one of 12 API and or appeared wells the year last of 18, and or that way there are some explorations, of which the last word cannot still be said, where appears a petroleum that it has around 19 API. Perhaps a day, with luck, we were a petroleum with more API.

One never forgets to me, because of that it was spoken long ago, a fuel that took place over there by Slaughters, near Corralillo, that in World War II was used directly in the vehicles like gasoline. Unfortunately he was not abundant, but I imagine that the amount of API was much more high, and the place where they have appeared these signals - I say signals, not to say more, because not can, is not due to still say more is not far, indeed, of that zone.

There are different types from petroleum, have been in means of the island; but we are not hoping that the manna of the sky falls to us and that it appears much petroleum, because we have discovered, luckyly, something much more important, the energy saving, that is like finding a great deposit.

StephenCurran (Stef) wrote:Maybe this isn't as EXCLUSIVE (whoppee!) as I'm thinking/hoping.

"The US administration knows this problem very well, or there would be no explanation to such a crazy and brutal war, which Washington has waged in that part of the world (meaning Iraq) with no cause at all and by deceiving the whole world and the US people. They (The US) do know more than all of us about the existence of oil reserves; they know that the largest oil wells were already found and there are few left, said Fidel Castro.