Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Is Obama a Shill for the Ethanol Lobby?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Jerry Gamblin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>> http://www.ecomodder.com/blog/2008/06/30/is-obama-a-shill-for-the-ethanol-lobby/
>>
>> Obama a Shill? No Way, he is the next Jesus J. Kennedy King Jr.
> 
> The deeper problem here is that there *many* senators and reps from
> farm states who have strong political needs to promote ethanol. A
> deeper problem even than that is that Iowa is a swing state that could
> decide the election. It is relatively difficult to imagine that
> anybody is going to make a strong statement against King Corn in that
> situation, although I would be delighted to be wrong. The real test
> will not be what happens between now and November, but whether the
> next president will have enough political capital to fix what's wrong
> with the policy.

Another viewpoint - as even the original article points out - the major 
reason way ethanol is currently getting a lot of support is economic - 
the desire to reduce US need on foreign oil.  Reducing CO2 emissions was 
probably just a selling point to try to dupe environmentalists into 
their cause, but nothing more than that.

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