I notice that whenever democrats bring up this renewable energy independence crap elected Republicans never respond with “We were already lied to about that and wasted billions on that polluting inefficient ethanol hoax”. My only guess is that Republicans never bring this up because it was passed under Bush and promoted by Bush as a large step to energy independence.
This is a shame because ethanol was 10s of billions of dollars down a rat-hole and even environmentalists disown it as bad and yet elected Republicans wont mention it as an example of the false dream of an alternative non-carbon fuel. Ethanol was the “Big Lie”.
Ohaha’s speech reeked of Rahm and Axelrod’s political calculations.
Some of the phrases used-—the allusion to our fighting men, etc——the Reaganesque “God Bless America”——show the WH mob had calculatedly written the speech using focus-grouped phrases intended to suck Ohaha out of the political sinkhole he’s made for himself.
In fact, the speech was so well-rehearsed, even down to the orchestrated voice inflections-——that Ohaha must have channelled Lee Strassberg.
“I watched the speech and MSNBC afterward and Olbermann and Matthews were ripping Obama for throwing around high minded general goals for energy independence without proposing anything specific. They both badly wanted the man they dreamed of, the liberal Ronald Reagan that convinces 75% of the country to support their specific goals, cap and trade in this case. They were brutal with him, had the tone of Krauthammer ripping Obama.
I notice that whenever democrats bring up this renewable energy independence crap elected Republicans never respond with “We were already lied to about that and wasted billions on that polluting inefficient ethanol hoax”. My only guess is that Republicans never bring this up because it was passed under Bush and promoted by Bush as a large step to energy independence.
This is a shame because ethanol was 10s of billions of dollars down a rat-hole and even environmentalists disown it as bad and yet elected Republicans wont mention it as an example of the false dream of an alternative non-carbon fuel. Ethanol was the “Big Lie”.”
We have Cowards in the house who will not say anything about these preposterous lies.
Thanks for your comments. I agree.
When ethanol was first introduced, I thought it would provide an increased market for farmer’s goods, and help reduce the need for foreign oil. I hadn’t realized there were so many down sides with it.
Good call.