If, by some miracle, this does turn out to be true, then all I can say is, "WHAT!?"
It doesn’t matter. The only way Santorum could be a viable presidential candidate this go around (or any in the future unless he gets back into the Senate or is elected Governor of Pennyslvania) would be — God forbid it — if there were a mass casualty terrorist attack on U.S. soil, in which case films of his warnings while a Senator and just after losing his seat would give him a prophetic and Churchillian ring.
As my former Senator and a farmer in PA, I’ll be the first to tell Rick to STFU. He was a good Senator, but he’s off the wall on this one. Ethanol is killing not only the small engines that “have” to use it, it’s also taking away one product that we all need - and that is food. What a jackwagon he is.
He was a good, steady Senator, and I was very sorry to see some conservatives turn against him in 2006, but he really has gone off the rails in the past few months. I guess he’s just desperate to get back into politics.
But this ain’t the way to do it. Liberals wouldn’t touch him on a bet, and now he’s kicking conservatives.
Generally, it is stupid to burn our food in a time of peace, when there are ample supplies of oil.
But the cars should, since it is easy enough, be able to run on ethanol, so if Iran decides to nuke the middle east, we can switch over to high-ethanol mixes, since we can grow a lot of extra ethanol if we absolutely have to, especially if we stop supplying food to the world because there’s a pending apocalypse.
my 2 cents...
Let’s stop burning bourbon.
From a national security point of view, we simply need a strong economy, which yields a strong dollar, which allows us to buy OPO (other people’s oil) cheaply until it’s all gone. Then we drill for our own and sell it at top dollar.
A strong economy is the foundation of national security. When we’re ready to cut scope of government to what makes sense, (Depts of State, Treasury, War and Justice), and have them actually do their respective jobs, then we’re off to the races to a standard of living 10 times higher than today and the rest of the world will again be 100 years behind us. The private sector could get going and oil would cost less than $30 per barrel for us.
Santorum—What will you do when your Lawn service has no more lawn mowers due to the damages from Ethanol???
He’s just saying what Arlen whispers in his ear.
Any questions why Iowa makes sure it has the first presidential caucuses each election cycle?
If this and the other unprincipled actions mentioned here are all true, then Santorum’s gonna get weeded out quickly. And quite frankly that’s a good thing. I’d like to see the Pub Presidential field get winnowed very rapidly down to two or three viable conservative candidates.
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