Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol

New York Times ^ | 23 June 2008 | LARRY ROHTER

[shrinkermd]

"...Nowadays, when Mr. Obama travels in farm country, he is sometimes accompanied by his friend Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader from South Dakota. Mr. Daschle now serves on the boards of three ethanol companies and works at a Washington law firm where, according to his online job description, “he spends a substantial amount of time providing strategic and policy advice to clients in renewable energy.”

Thirty percent of the corn crop for 3% of our gasoline needs sounds like a failed policy; however, for the farm states getting $ from Washington trumps any other issue.

[steelyourfaith]

ping

[johnny7]

Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol Soaring Food Prices, Inflation

[TexasCajun]

No Food for Fuel!

[Schnucki]

Is Obama part of this splash and dash scam?

[Falcon4.0]

BIG Ethanol!

We need to Nationalize the Corn Industry.

[pnh102]

This isn’t surprising. Quite a few farmers in Illinois make a lot of money selling this snake oil.

[Dr. Sivana]

I am not a John McCain fan, but I do recall that he never really jumped on the ethanol bandwagon, even in Iowa.

[Apollo 13]

I am closely linked to ethanol too. On a daily basis, just before bedtime, with some classical music.
Am I a Communist now? [emoticon]utter fear[/emoticon].

[Non-Sequitur]

Well duh? You know how much corn they grow in Illinois?

[Dr. Sivana]

I believe that your ethanol is subject to net taxation, not net subsidization, so you are more or less an unwilling socialist, like the rest of us. (You wouldn’t be using”Victory” brand, would you?)

[prairiebreeze]

I’m relieved to hear this. Since there is likely to be extremely depressed corn yields in the midwest this summer from the flooding in addition to high demand and low supply of seed milo for fall crops, perhaps the Magic Negro can guide us in deciding if we are going to feed livestock or gas their offspring this next year vs. produce biofuel.

It’ll be wonderful to have him help us understand what our nation should do. Perhaps we’ll import corn from Brazil, YES! That’s the ticket...

[Dr. Sivana]

Well duh? You know how much corn they grow in Illinois?

Lots and lots. There's a corn field behind me, and one across the street. Almost nobody grows anything else around here (which some say can cause its own problems down the line.)

(I live in northern Illinois, near Rockford.)

[Dr. Sivana]

One other point should be made, the recent crazy weather in Iowa and Wisconsin and Illinois should remind us that it is a bad idea to make our energy availability so reliant on the weather.

[Southerngl]

God, I want a bumper sticker with that on it.

That’s what I hear when I hear No War for Oil.

[Apollo 13]

Hehe -
great reply! I’ll think of it tonight when I am in ‘sipping’ mode...

[GOPyouth]

Mr. Obama is running as a reformer Marxist who is seeking to reduce increase the influence of special interests government.

There...I fixed it.

[GOPyouth]

Mr. Obama argued that embracing ethanol “ultimately helps our national security, because right now we’re sending billions of dollars to some of the most hostile nations on earth.”

So, in order to reduce the money sent overseas for oil, B. Hussein has insisted that no more drilling take place in the continental United States. He'll do that by creating a non-existent market, using hard earned tax money, and pay farmers to not grow what's in demand in the world.

[theDentist]

Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol

The first thing I thought was: Is that what they're huffing?

[stylin19a]

He has now.....