[ngat]

Pawlenty on ethanol program tax credits (subsidies) “we simply can’t afford them,”. So, we can afford the other ones?

[WOBBLY BOB]

depends on when you ask him.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/09/26_mccalluml_ethanol/

Pawlenty pumps ethanol
by Laura McCallum, Minnesota Public Radio
September 26, 2005

Governor Tim Pawlenty addresses the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition in St Paul. (MPR photo/Laura McCallum)
Governor Pawlenty is challenging other states to boost their ethanol consumption. He told a meeting of the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition that the corn-based fuel will reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. The group consists of 31 states and five countries that support ethanol. But unlike Minnesota, few of them mandate ethanol use.