[pissant]

That worthless charlatan along with the rats and retard wing of the GOP have wasted 100s of billions with their environMENTAL wetdreams

[BunnySlippers]

Al Gore must know his whole life will be regarded as a total FAILURE.

All he had was money.

[Baynative]

David Pimental, a leading Cornell University agricultural expert, has calculated that powering the average U.S. automobile for one year on ethanol (blended with gasoline) derived from corn would require 11 acres of farmland, the same space needed to grow a year’s supply of food for seven people. Adding up the energy costs of corn production and its conversion into ethanol, 131,000 BTUs are needed to make one gallon of ethanol. One gallon of ethanol has an energy value of only 77,000 BTUS. Thus, 70 percent more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in it. Every time you make one gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000 BTUs.

[RedMDer]

With that scheme and the carbon trading I hope it is all exposed and he and the other criminals like Algor lose everything that they have. It looks to me like the greedy commie elites play the hand too soon and now that the economy is in serious trouble people have waken up and now, I hope, there is hell to pay for them.

[OneWingedShark]

The truly terrible thing is the waste of all that consumable alcohol by diluting it with gasoline... *sigh*

[Talisker]

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 Al Gore ended a 50-50 tie in the Senate by voting in favor of an ethanol tax credit...

You've long been a liar, a cheat, a thief, and a treasonous bastard, Al. But with ethanol, you finally hit the communist big time - murdering the masses.

How many carbon credits need to be offset for each death by starvation, you bloated pervert?

[Cicero]

Sure, he meant well

Really? Gore himself admitted that he did it to get votes from two key farm states when he was running for office.

[The Duke]

This is one of the few times that I can’t admire someone for admitting they were wrong. $5 billion isn’t a joke (at least it used not to be).

[M-cubed]

In sum, Gore demonstrated that politicians are lousy at figuring out which alternative fuels make the most sense<<<

NOOOOOOO!...... Gore demonstrated that “politicians” are lousy at figuring out what is right for the whole damned Country...It really is that simple IMHO!

[Ditto]

None of this is a recent revelation. Their were many screaming into a blank void (i.e. no MSM microphones) at the time this insane legislation passed that the entire thing was a scam.

Gore knew it. Every member of congress (Rs and Ds) with an IQ above room temp knew it, but they passed it anyway because it suit their political purposes.

That is the problem with politicians having a say with complex problems such as energy. Get the government and politicians the hell out of the subsidy business! They will always do what is best for them and every one else can just go to hell.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

"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."

That should read, "a certain fondness for Archer Daniels Midland."