Ehanol and The Left’s Dishonesty
By 186 on May 18, 2008
So typical of the Left to create a problem and blame it on others especially when “others” can include juicy chum bites like “Enron” and “Agribusiness”!
Sadly the left is trying to erase history again….
Sadly, No! » While I was sleeping
It has to do with the current crazy price spiral the world is going through on essential commodities like food and energy. It turns out, if you dig through enough obscure news sources like Senate subcommitte reports or evil communist trade rags, you can find bits and pieces that, if combined with some decent investigative journalism, would probably yield a story about how guys like the Enron execs who were behind the rolling blackouts in California a few years ago are now thinking bigger, and have stuck their bottom-feeding jaws into the international wealth streams that are the world’s food and oil supplies.
The left / nutroots never let the facts get in the way.
The Left on Ethanol | OpenMarket.org
As the ethanol disaster gets more and more apparent, the liberal left is trying to wriggle out of any responsibility for it, blaming it on Bush and agribusiness. Now, I agree that the President and the rent-seeking giants like Archer Daniels Midland bear a large part of the blame, and several environmental pressure groups have consistently been against corn ethanol (but have put very little of their considerable lobbying weight behind opposing ethanol expansion measures) but it was actually the liberal left’s conversion on the issue that tipped the balance. At one point, Sen. Clinton and the California Senators, for instance, were staunch opponents of ethanol, but as the demands for decarbonization gathered steam, they switched. The terrible energy act of 2007 that massively expanded ethanol subsidies was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress, after all.
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