“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.
This is what happens when you (Republicans) are in power and pass bills to follow opinion polls (having to make deals with democrats to pass something) that backfire because they never going to work. They have to make believe ethanol never happened. Like I said, envirmentalists are disowning it.