Re: About Al Gore and Those Ethanol Subsidies

Yeah, somebody didn't think that all the way through. When you find that
rare topic which both the Sierra Club and big Oil oppose, you've found a
genuine rarity. Clogs your engine, reduces MPG, costs more, and (as a
kicker) you're PUTTING YOUR FOOD SUPPLY INTO YOUR TANK.

Johne Cook
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Peter T. Chattaway <
petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:

> http://kylesmithonline.com/?p=7288
>
> By Kyle | November 24, 2010
>
> I've seen a lot of essays this week such as this one about Al Gore's recent
> statement in Athens to the effect that ethanol subsidies are a bad idea.
> This position isn't actually new. Gore said in his book "Our Choice" last
> year that ethanol was "a mistake" and admitted at the time that he supported
> ethanol because of the political influence of farmers in Tennessee and Iowa
> -- a state where he needed to be popular when he ran for president. It's all
> in my column of November 8, 2009:
>
>    Gore is so sure of himself, having won a prize awarded annually by some
> Scandinavians to the most prominent ideological opponent of George W. Bush,
> that he occasionally slips up. There is an extraordinary moment of candor
> when Gore says that in the mid-'90s, as vice president, he cast the
> tie-breaking vote in the Senate to push the disastrous boondoggle of
> subsidies for corn-based ethanol (he labels ethanol, in a laughable
> understatement, "a mistake" and "a disappointment") because of "my political
> desire to help the farm economy in Tennessee and Iowa."
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