Newt is blatantly pandering for the Iowa Farm vote. Everybody knows the Ethanol subsidy is a big boondoggle.
The larger issue of course is why are welfare queen farmers given first dibs at picking the GOP nominee.
A little research will reveal that he's on the payroll of one or more alternative-fuel lobbying groups. Just like that former CIA director James Woolsey who writes articles and gives speeches in which he describes our nation's reliance on fossil fuels as a "national security issue" -- when he's got his own agenda lobbying for the alternative fuel industry and even sits on the board of directors of Plug In America (an advocacy group for electric vehicles).
These people get tiresome after a while, don't they?
It couldn't be more obvious. Another is Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) who's generally conservative but has never seen an ethanol subsidy he'd vote against.