Newt is blatantly pandering for the Iowa Farm vote. Everybody knows the Ethanol subsidy is a big boondoggle.
Either subsidies for anything are good or they are bad. Newt needs to go away. The last thing we need is yet another socialist running on the GOP ticket.
All I have seen is anecdotal stories and personal experience. Personal experience is that we are getting 10% less mpg, and they are putting 10% ethanol in the fuel. So how am I saving any gas. I'm still burning the same amount of gasoline that I ever was, I just have to fill up more often.
So we aren't saving gas, it's costing a lot to subsidize, and it's driving the price of food up. Where is the benefit? If there is not one kill it.
Newt was on top of the world when he rode into congress in the clinton years. He was a great talker, and the Contract for America had it exactly right for the time. Then clinton brought his guns to bear, Newt caved in and started pandering for success, and he went off the rails and mucked up his marriage as well as his political career.
If he had just stuck to honest principles, he would be an important figure today, maybe POTUS, maybe an elder statesman. As it is, he’s just a bad example of what happens when you play for power and self gratification so often that the whole world figures it out.
He’d might as well dump his third wife and pick up with Megan McCain, at this point. Or Dede Scozzafava.
I’m all for a political policy which burns our food.
Ethanol gets lower gas mileage, thanks to its lower energy potential, which is one of the reasons that consumers haven’t bought flex-fuel vehicles.
It could be the most wonderful thing in the world. No one will know unless free markets choose it. If free markets reject it so be it.
It is wrong in PRINCIPLE for tax dollars to subsidize ANY industry.
I assume Newt missed the memo that each gallon of ethanol requires energy inputs equivalent to 1 1/3 gallons of fossil fuel. All this insanity to counter Algore’s non-existant anthropogenic global warming hoax. I know Newt’s smarter than that.
Sounds like he’s pandering to the Agribusiness lobby which is sucking on fedzilla’s teat for all those subsidies for ethanol so we can continue to burn our FOOD and ruin the engines in our vehicles. That’s ONE way to get more of us off the road.
On a similar note, these environwhackos are now pushing 15% ethanol in the gasoline. I just bought a new gas powered string trimmer. The manual warns that use of E15 gas will void the warranty as it will probably DESTROY THE ENGINE! Brilliant, huh?
...as well they should.
He s already the candidate most likely to follow a snapping thong into the Oval Office sink area.
Guess that's one way to "nudge" Americans into electric or so-called "green" cars.
Everybody knows the Ethanol subsidy is a big boondoggle.
Even Al Gore admitted this
I will support a candidate who goes to Iowa and campaigns on ending ethanol subsidies.
4 out of 10 loads of Corn now go to produce Ethanol.
And if we up that amount to 15% by volume, it will translate to over 5 loads for every 10. (50% of our Corn production in other words.)
It not only increases our cost at the pump, it increases our taxes to pay off the ransom money supporting the subsidies to produce it!
Gingrich = Old Republican = Not conservative = No money or votes from me.
EVAH!!
Amen. Sit down and shut up Newt...you're embarrassing yourself.
Newt, stand aside and let the new boys show you ole boys how it is done. You will not get a vote from anyone in my house.