Posted on 02/01/2011 9:02:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Newt is blatantly pandering for the Iowa Farm vote. Everybody knows the Ethanol subsidy is a big boondoggle.
Either subsidies for anything are good or they are bad. Newt needs to go away. The last thing we need is yet another socialist running on the GOP ticket.
I AM CORNWHORIO!!!! I need E85 subsidies for my....
Oh, never mind. :)
All I have seen is anecdotal stories and personal experience. Personal experience is that we are getting 10% less mpg, and they are putting 10% ethanol in the fuel. So how am I saving any gas. I'm still burning the same amount of gasoline that I ever was, I just have to fill up more often.
So we aren't saving gas, it's costing a lot to subsidize, and it's driving the price of food up. Where is the benefit? If there is not one kill it.
The larger issue of course is why are welfare queen farmers given first dibs at picking the GOP nominee.
If there were a benefit, the government wouldn’t have to mandate it to be done.
Newt was on top of the world when he rode into congress in the clinton years. He was a great talker, and the Contract for America had it exactly right for the time. Then clinton brought his guns to bear, Newt caved in and started pandering for success, and he went off the rails and mucked up his marriage as well as his political career.
If he had just stuck to honest principles, he would be an important figure today, maybe POTUS, maybe an elder statesman. As it is, he’s just a bad example of what happens when you play for power and self gratification so often that the whole world figures it out.
He’d might as well dump his third wife and pick up with Megan McCain, at this point. Or Dede Scozzafava.
I’m all for a political policy which burns our food.
Ethanol gets lower gas mileage, thanks to its lower energy potential, which is one of the reasons that consumers haven’t bought flex-fuel vehicles.
It could be the most wonderful thing in the world. No one will know unless free markets choose it. If free markets reject it so be it.
It is wrong in PRINCIPLE for tax dollars to subsidize ANY industry.
You've touched on the real problem.
He’s supposed to be this deep thinker. But his policies are irrational.
I assume Newt missed the memo that each gallon of ethanol requires energy inputs equivalent to 1 1/3 gallons of fossil fuel. All this insanity to counter Algore’s non-existant anthropogenic global warming hoax. I know Newt’s smarter than that.
Sounds like he’s pandering to the Agribusiness lobby which is sucking on fedzilla’s teat for all those subsidies for ethanol so we can continue to burn our FOOD and ruin the engines in our vehicles. That’s ONE way to get more of us off the road.
On a similar note, these environwhackos are now pushing 15% ethanol in the gasoline. I just bought a new gas powered string trimmer. The manual warns that use of E15 gas will void the warranty as it will probably DESTROY THE ENGINE! Brilliant, huh?
...as well they should.
He s already the candidate most likely to follow a snapping thong into the Oval Office sink area.
Guess that's one way to "nudge" Americans into electric or so-called "green" cars.
Everybody knows the Ethanol subsidy is a big boondoggle.
Even Al Gore admitted this
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