[parksstp]

And Newt also bought into the oil-appetite reduction baloney as well. Oh wait, let me guess, he already changed his position again. lol.

“Figure out what the country needs” and then do it? We know what the country needs already! That’s our ace-in-the-hole. One of the things Newt said in this interview was, “Far beyond just how do I subsidize your heating oil, how do I make it unnecessary for you to buy as much heating oil? And there are dramatic things we can do in that conversation.” Now, “How do I…?” He means a president, running a campaign, not him.“How do I subsidize your heating oil?” We Republicans are going to talk about subsidizing people’s heating oil now, and we’re going to call that conservatism?

http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/newt-gingrich-in-2008-the-era-of-reagan-is-overwhy-newt-is-wrong-for-america/

[katiedidit1]

Your man RS did a flip flop more than once. He supported higher taxes; biofuel, MANDATES and the little cars like the volt.

[katiedidit1]

" What we need is a government mandate! We need to mandate that all cars sold in the United States, starting with the 2010 model year, be “flex-fuel vehicles” – that is, they should be able to run on a blend that is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline (the so-called E85 blend), or even a coal-derived methanol/gas mixture. This mandate would cost a fraction of the new fuel economy standard with the added benefit of saving barrels more oil. Rick Santorum on Ethanol

Yes…that’s right. Santorum’s answer to the energy crisis…was corn. His response was to force car manufacturers to build vehicles that would rely on 85% ethanol…ie, a corn byproduct. (And yes, I’m aware that Gingrich supports ethanol (not mandating it, just exploring it as an option), an issue with which I strongly disagree with him.)