Newt Answers Critics Over Ethanol Comments (Still fails to address issue raised by critics)

Hotair ^ | 02/05/2011 | Jazz Shaw

[freedomfiter2]

But I would definitely like to hear more from him with specifics as to why he’s staying in the ethanol camp.

Corn futures?

[SkipW]

I don’t trust Gingrich as far as I could throw him.

[MichiganCheese]

It’s never a good idea to burn your food.

[bray]

Could it be that Iowa is the first primary?
Stop ethenol subsidies now.

Pray for America

[sickoflibs]

Ethanol is Washington’s curse on this nation. It is proof that their solutions can only be bad. Screw you Newt!

[barbarianbabs]

I love the picture of NEWT&NANCY. He is really annoying. She is a succubus.

[Baynative]

[bruinbirdman]

All I ever find in the produce section any more is white, high fructose corn on the cob.

And try finding a yellow corn tortilla. Twice the price!!

All the limited yellow corn seems to go into corn chips and cereal. And those have skyrocketed.

yitbos

[bonehead4freedom]

He failed during the Clinton impeachment,running rather than fighting and has been tilting leftward ever since.Mr.Newt has been trying to grovel to the D.C. crowd and the drive by media attempting to curry favor for the sin of opposing Clinton and the socialist agenda.Kinda like Miss Lindsey Graham.

[Carismar]

Newt is an opportunist who will suck up to anyone who can conceivably advance his political career or wealth. Ethanol lobbyists, Nancy Pelosi, corrupt former mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin, etc., and then when caught in the headlights tries to weasel out of it with a non sequitur. Conservatives don’t need to support him. When he doesn’t make it in 2012, after living off his campaign fund he’ll end up as DC lobbyist of some organization like the corn producers.

[J Edgar]

Newt is actually Grahamesty is a patriotic professor’s clothing - Beware!
Proceed with extreme caution!
Lost of your Genuine Conservative Political Bearings are at risk!
DC Insider corruption suspected.

[samtheman]

Maybe he “testified before Congress against the Obama administration’s cap-and-trade energy-tax scheme”, maybe he didn’t.

But regardless, he sat on that couch with Stalinist Pelosi and declared with her that Global Warming is the problem and that carbon is the cause. Once he did that, the only “solutions” can be big government interventions of one kind or another. And that means some form of cap-n-trade.

If he tries to say that he and Stalinist Pelosi had free market solutions in mind when they agreed to agree on this “vital issue”... then you know he’s a liar or a dunce.

[magritte]

Gingrich is against long-term Federal subsidies for ethanol:

“If they’re prepared to insist on a flex-fuel vehicle and every car in America is capable of buying ethanol, I think the industry can stand on its own,” Gingrich said. “I’m not advocating the tax credit beyond this year, I’m advocating that we shift to a fully competitive ability for every gas station to be able to have ethanol and for every car that pulls up to be able to use ethanol. But they should also be able to use methane. It should be a genuine flex-fuel vehicle for national security reasons.”

http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=224719

[Rocky]

Former speakers. Former. That’s the good part.

[mewykwistmas]

“My support of increased domestic energy production of all forms, including biofuels and domestic drilling, is born out of our urgent national security and economic needs”

Stoooooopid Newt. Increasing food prices means wars and revolutions across the world. How is this in our advantage, especially since the ‘energy’ is affordable only because of huge subsidies.

[bigbob]

Dolt!

[sbark]

Maybe Newt realizes the American Consumer is the ultimate beneficiary of all these production enhancement subsidies.

Lets say 5% more disposable income X 300 million people from cheaper supplies of Food, Cotton and Fuel....

300,000,00 X 45,000 income X 5% is some 600 billion

pretty modest compared to 6 billion ethanol subsidies that as per Urbanchuk actually pay back the Treas 3 to 1 basis

You the American consumer can afford IPads and IBM’s because of these subsidies.

[sbark]

Ethanol production has now essentially duplicated all the oil we import from Saudi Arabia.....

Farmers, via self financed coops built the infrastucture themselves.

I’ve used the product for 20yrs in lawnmowers, cars, p/ups, chainsaws, snowmobils, boats etc etc without problems.

I think its basically poor maintainence by people removed from maintainence blaming the problems on ethanol

[SouthTexas]

In the interest of fairness, we should allow him to make his case.

Uh, no.