Now saying ethanol is “certainly a part of the solution”. yeah right.
You can’t win Iowa if you come out against ethanol, regardless of how stupid ethanol really is.
I share your sentiment.
But a lot of voters live in corn country and they like to hear that ... . . .
. . . and maybe he really believes it.
Don’t think that he overstated its importance if you put everything he said in context...
The key word is “PART.” Ethanol, as we all know, in and of itself is not a solution, and the way it is being produced now is not really the best way (or all that helpful even), but as part of a multifaceted energy policy it has a place.
Of course domestic drilling and refining is part of that.