News, U.S. corn ethanol "was not a good policy"-Gore. (Al Gore, gallon)

[JD59]

ATHENS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was "not a good policy", weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.

U.S. blending tax breaks for ethanol make it profitable for refiners to use the fuel even when it is more expensive than gasoline. The credits are up for renewal on Dec. 31.

U.S. corn ethanol was not a good policy-Gore | Energy & Oil | Reuters

[stillkit]

I could have told him that the first time a tank of old ethanol fouled my chain saw and lawn mowers. It will, if it sits there undisturbed for a few months, such as over the winter.

It'll also foul old air-cooled Volkswagen motors.

[thecoalman]

Total U.S. ethanol subsidies reached $7.7 billion last year according to the International Energy Industry, which said biofuels worldwide received more subsidies than any other form of renewable energy.

That's about 72 cents a gallon by my calculations and having seen these figures before I question whether it includes the farm subsidies.

Gore supported so-called second generation technologies which do not compete with food, for example cellulosic technologies which use chemicals or enzymes to extract sugar from fibre for example in wood, waste or grass.

How much you want to bet he has investments in this?

[rogerbacon]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

How much you want to bet he has investments in this?

Of course. For Al Gore, the high priest of the church of enviromentalism, its all about fear and money-making. The hypocrite lives in a house that uses 20 times the electricity of the average American.
http://www.granthammond.com/2010/hom...e-bushs-ranch/

[Frank DeForrest]

Al Gore has not been good for America.

I'll supply the wood for the gallows.

[alphaluce]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Al Gore has not been good for America.

I'll supply the wood for the gallows.

...and some extra, please, for a stake through the heart, and a funeral pyre

[GregW]

Now here is a welfare program we could do without. Drop the rest of the subsudies on huge corporate farms while you are at it.

Just because Al Gore is a manipulator and a phony does not mean he is wrong. Even he can get it right once in a while.

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by GregW

Now here is a welfare program we could do without. Drop the rest of the subsudies on huge corporate farms while you are at it.

Just because Al Gore is a manipulator and a phony does not mean he is wrong. Even he can get it right once in a while.

and John Wayne Gacy painted nice clowns.

[LibertyandJusticeforAll]

Originally Posted by GregW

Now here is a welfare program we could do without. Drop the rest of the subsudies on huge corporate farms while you are at it.

Just because Al Gore is a manipulator and a phony does not mean he is wrong. Even he can get it right once in a while.

AL Gore is the prime example of government at work.
Manipulative and Phony and Wrong most of the time.

[Vanskills]

Why is AL Gore even speaking?

Someone needs to tell that hippie to kick rocks.