less mileage, costs more and drives up the price of food... whats not to love???
Posted on 11/22/2010 6:08:18 PM PST by Kaslin
Energy: Former Vice President Al Gore admitted Monday that his pivotal 1994 Senate vote for ethanol subsidies was bad policy but good politics. That says a lot about the reality of environmentalism in government.
As the ethanol tax credit comes up for renewal in Congress on Dec. 31, it's worth noting it only came about because the vice president cast the decisive 51st vote in favor of it in 1994.
At the time, he packaged it as a big move to preserve the environment in a market-friendly, sustainable manner, and for years defended his vote because it was supposedly good for us.
"The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be," he recounted in 1998.
Now the real story emerges. On Monday he matter-of-factly told a bankers group in Greece it was actually about helping himself.
"One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president," the former vice president said.
One is tempted to praise a man who admits mistakes, but the magnitude of what Gore actually did through his cynically cast vote as an elected leader in a position of trust suggests sorry isn't enough.
Gore's vote drove food prices higher, trashed the environment, and drew American capital into inefficient energy sources over efficient ones. This should be an object lesson in the importance of not trusting politicians on the environment.
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If Congress wants a painless costcutting move, cancelling this fiasco is a low hanging piece of fruit ripe for the picking. It has the added advantage of being the right thing to do.
And all this time I thought it was about the environment!
This assclown ALGORE made it about these things:
1. ALGORE
2. $$$$$$
3. ALGORE
No real surprise here except if he (ALGORE) is admitting this now what is fatso up to now. Follow the money and see, but remember its easier to just call BS the next time tubby opens his mouth!
All three should be confiscated immediately.
less mileage, costs more and drives up the price of food... whats not to love???
Chickens and roosting.
History will judge this POS. The Pewliker Prize is worthless.
Politicians lie? Who knew?
He was more worried about his upcoming massage and the happy ending.
ping
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