[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

[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