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TOPIC: Al Gore: I Was Wrong About Corn-Based Ethanol (Newser - 11/23/10)
VotedHillary


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He has lost ALL credibility with me.


Al Gore regrets supporting subsidies for corn-based ethanol when he was in office, he revealed during a speech in Athens yesterday, confessing that he’d done it more to bolster his presidential ambitions than to help the planet. “First generation ethanol I think was a mistake,” Gore said, according to Reuters, arguing that “it is not good policy to have these massive subsidies.”

“One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee,” Gore admitted. “And I had a certain fondness for the farmers in Iowa, because I was about to run for president.” First generation ethanol, Gore explained, took too much energy to produce, and had a real impact on food prices. But he said he still supports second generation fuels based on farm waste, switchgrass, and other non-food sources.


http://www.newser.com/story/106003/al-gore-corn-based-ethanol-was-a-mistake.html

-- Edited by VotedHillary on Wednesday 24th of November 2010 12:44:58 AM

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What a jackwagon!

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Jen the Michigander wrote:

What a jackwagon!



That is much kinder than what I called him after reading this.  But here is my real question.  How can anyone believe anything he has to say about the enviornment/green technology etc.  ever again?

After reading this statement from him, I am embarrassed that I voted for him.  Looks like 2000 had as bad of options as 2008 for POTUS.



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