Comments on: Lester Brown Issues Advisory - Ethanol is BAD, BAD NEWS http://todbrilliant.com/lester-brown-issues-advisory-ethanol-is-bad-bad-news/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:52:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Gail http://todbrilliant.com/lester-brown-issues-advisory-ethanol-is-bad-bad-news/#comment-1314 Gail Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:29:08 +0000 http://todbrilliant.com/lester-brown-issues-advisory-ethanol-is-bad-bad-news/#comment-1314 <p>Check out "Barack Obama Inc. - The Birth of a Washington Machine" in the November, 2006 Harper's at http://www.harpers.org/BarackObamaInc.html. It's a small part of the article, but at a speaking event, Obama was promoting the cross country trip of a law student who was driving a "flex-fuel" vehicle. The fuel was E85, which is 85% ethanol. </p> <p>As senator of Illinois, Obama supports biofuels such as ethanol. And Archer Daniels Midland provided a company jet to Obama twice in his first year of office.</p> <p>I mention this because it's tempting to support Obama because he is so charismatic. But not if you care about the environment and the shortage of corn for tortillas in Mexico.</p> Check out “Barack Obama Inc. - The Birth of a Washington Machine” in the November, 2006 Harper’s at
http://www.harpers.org/BarackObamaInc.html. It’s a small part of the article, but at a speaking event, Obama was promoting the cross country trip of a law student who was driving a “flex-fuel” vehicle. The fuel was E85, which is 85% ethanol.

As senator of Illinois, Obama supports biofuels such as ethanol. And Archer Daniels Midland provided a company jet to Obama twice in his first year of office.

I mention this because it’s tempting to support Obama because he is so charismatic. But not if you care about the environment and the shortage of corn for tortillas in Mexico.

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