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You Can Stop Paying for Al Gore's Mistake
RealClearPolitics ^ | 11/30/2010 | Debra Saunders

Posted on 11/30/2010 5:50:23 AM PST by SueRae

In Greece earlier this month, Al Gore made a startling admission: "First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake." Unfortunately, Americans have Gore to thank for ethanol subsidies. In 1994, then-Vice President Gore ended a 50-50 tie in the Senate by voting in favor of an ethanol tax credit that added almost $5 billion to the federal deficit last year. And that number doesn't factor the many ways in which corn-based ethanol mandates drive up the price of food and livestock feed.

In sum, Gore demonstrated that politicians are lousy at figuring out which alternative fuels make the most sense. Now even enviros like Friends of the Earth have come to believe that "large-scale agro-fuels" are "ecologically unsustainable and inefficient."

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KEYWORDS: algore; altenergy; altfuel; ethanol
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"There is a movement in Washington to end Gore's mistake. Republican Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Jim DeMint of South Carolina have proposed ending the 45-cent-per-gallon subsidy on corn ethanol, which is set to expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress extends it." Just do it.
1 posted on 11/30/2010 5:50:24 AM PST by SueRae
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To: SueRae
Something else is going on. The blowhard never admits to a "mistake."

ML/NJ

2 posted on 11/30/2010 5:55:21 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: SueRae

Now we just have to get my moron congressmen from Iowa to stop supporting this boondoggle. The Republicans King and Grassley continue to defend this waste of money.


3 posted on 11/30/2010 6:04:25 AM PST by CarWashMan
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To: SueRae

I drive 10 miles once every 2 weeks to fill up on non ethanol gas.


4 posted on 11/30/2010 6:17:36 AM PST by mel (since progressive is code word for anti- i am a progressive progressive)
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To: ml/nj

Maybe he sold his shares in ADM.


5 posted on 11/30/2010 6:21:24 AM PST by tiki
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To: ml/nj

Maybe he sold his shares in ADM.


6 posted on 11/30/2010 6:22:21 AM PST by tiki
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To: SueRae

Stop burning food.

Pray for America


7 posted on 11/30/2010 6:30:39 AM PST by bray (63 more reasons the Tea Party Rox)
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To: SueRae
Gore never says anything that's correct, even accidentally.

He's a wonder of ineptitude.

If he was a blind man-bear-pig, he wouldn't be able to find an acorn.

If he was a broken clock he wouldn't even be right once a day.

This says a lot about the people who continue to be duped by him and his phony Global Warming/Climate Change/Fiscally Responsible Democrat Influenced Temperature Alteration/Disruptification/Hot-Cold-bad-car Heating Sky Making/Anthropogenic Really Truly True Science Consensus Blarney.

8 posted on 11/30/2010 6:31:25 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: SueRae
Do we get all our money back that has been wasted on the Global Warming Alarmism? I want him to pay it back personally.
9 posted on 11/30/2010 6:33:24 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: SueRae

Al Gore getting a law degree was a mistake. Al Gore being elected to public office was a mistake. The man is a moron.


10 posted on 11/30/2010 6:44:22 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: SueRae; pissant; CedarDave; 2ndDivisionVet; steelyourfaith; Sub-Driver; xcamel; ...

“There is a movement in Washington to end Gore’s mistake. Republican Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Jim DeMint of South Carolina have proposed ending the 45-cent-per-gallon subsidy on corn ethanol, which is set to expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress extends it.”

Ping. This is important folks. I urge you to call your senators and tell them to let the subsidy expire. Farmers would then divert their resources to food and feed production and the cost of everything from wheaties to meat will go down. It would have the added benefit of reducing the headlock Iowa has on the presidential selection process.


11 posted on 12/01/2010 6:31:38 AM PST by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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To: SueRae

“Ethanol - As easy as taking corn from a baby.”


12 posted on 12/01/2010 7:02:52 AM PST by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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It looks like the subsidies will be cut. Finally, a smidgen of common sense returns.

In other good news, watching the deficit reduction commission - I almost jumoed out of my chair when I saw the proposed reduction of $300 million from the U.N.!!!!
Oh Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 12/01/2010 7:36:24 AM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: SueRae

Wonder how many times this asshat has to flush his Lo-Flo toilet to get an empty bowl.


14 posted on 12/01/2010 7:39:11 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
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To: SueRae; TenthAmendmentChampion; Clive; scripter; Darnright; WL-law; bamahead; carolinablonde; ...
Thanx Delacon !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

15 posted on 12/01/2010 10:33:50 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: Liz; Just Lori; LucyT; Candor7; danamco; stephenjohnbanker; justiceseeker93

How about ending the 45-cent-per-gallon subsidy on corn ethanol, which is set to expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress extends it.


16 posted on 12/01/2010 2:01:52 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: N. Theknow
Wonder how many times this asshat has to flush his Lo-Flo toilet to get an empty bowl.

Thank you for a mental image I could have lived happily without.

17 posted on 12/01/2010 2:02:29 PM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: george76
Here is the problem with the subsidies. Business (and farmers) can't handle rapid change. Unless you want to face corn farmers driving their tractors down the street in the Iowa primaries...

So we need to take a steady draw down, lower the subsidy and start reducing the requirement to add 15% ethanol to gas bring it back to 10% then 5%, then make it optional.

But you can eliminate the Mohair subsidy right away.

18 posted on 12/01/2010 10:20:58 PM PST by djwright (2012 The White House Gets Another Coat Of Shellac)
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To: SC_Pete

Shows how great America is - Gore is a billionaire moron.


19 posted on 12/01/2010 10:25:29 PM PST by GregoryFul (Obama - Jim Jones redux)
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To: djwright

The ethanol subsidy is worse than ...

In addition to the transportation and volatility issues, ethanol will add yet more blends of gasoline to the retail market. Last year, American refiners produced 45 different types of gasoline. Each type of gasoline needs specific tanks and pipes...

There’s a final point to be raised about ethanol: It contains only about two-thirds as much energy as gasoline...

http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/


20 posted on 12/01/2010 10:44:57 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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