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To: trappedincanuckistan

Newt supporters have trashed Rick for so long. I have never said anything negative about Newt because I said I would vote for him if Rick did not make it. Well, since the Rick trashing won’t stop, what goes around comes around.

Newt;“I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.”

The cozy relationship Gingrich has with the ethanol industry led to his consulting business winning more than $300,000 in fees from the ethanol lobby after he left Congress. The Wall Street Journal noted April 27, 2011 that “Professor Gingrich says his ethanol support is grounded in his lifetime of studying history and intellectual problems, but what about that $312,500 from the ethanol lobby?... We’ve never suggested Mr. Gingrich has been bought off, though of course there wouldn’t be an ethanol lobby to hire Mr. Gingrich if there weren’t politicians like Mr. Gingrich willing to prop it up with taxpayer dollars, tariffs and mandates.”


49 posted on 03/11/2012 6:44:06 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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To: Linda Frances

The Santorum supporters have been consistent in attacking Newt on ethanol..now, a article on RS and ethanol comes out showing in his own words that he supports a mandate and that is bashing? I call it vetting. Cain, Perry, Newt (incessantly) have been going through it...it seems as if Mitt and RS have been the exception.
It is important to know the facts not something made up...the truth about the candidates.


54 posted on 03/11/2012 6:51:02 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: Linda Frances
Professor Cornpone Ethanol lobbyist Newt Gingrich and us—and the future of the GOP

The former Speaker blew through Des Moines last Tuesday for the Renewable Fuels Association summit, and his keynote speech to the ethanol lobby was as pious a tribute to the fuel made from corn and tax dollars as we've ever heard. Mr. Gingrich explained that "the big-city attacks" on ethanol subsidies are really attempts to deny prosperity to rural America, adding that "Obviously big urban newspapers want to kill it because it's working, and you wonder, 'What are their values?'"

Apparently I'm big city folk here in my 150 person metropolis because I don't like the subsidies either. Aside from a few big farms, most farmers around here aren't thrilled with the subsidies either.
55 posted on 03/11/2012 6:51:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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