Re: About Al Gore and Those Ethanol Subsidies

And due to the methods of production, shipping and delivery, it wastes more co2
than gars.
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Johne Cook
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:44 PM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] 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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