U.S. President Barack Obama intends to print "enormous sums of money" to keep American society from grinding to a halt, Fidel Castro said in his second critical essay of Obama, released Feb. 4.

The 82-year-old revolutionary also wrote that the United States "cannot satisfy its vital needs without the extraction of the enormous material resources of a great number of countries."

He questioned whether the new vehicles produced by the American automotive industry would be efficient enough to "meet the geological demands to protect humanity from the growing deterioration of the environment?"

He said he believes Obama "intends to print enormous sums of money in search of technologies that generate energy production without which modern societies would be paralyzed."