Climate of Denial by Al Gore (What about ethanol, Mr. Gore?)

Climate of Denial by Al Gore
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622?page=1

Mr. Gore, you have damaged the credibility of environmentalists everywhere by, as you recently admitted, supporting corn ethanol for political gains. As a vocal spokesperson for the environment, people believed you. Hardcore environmentalist and those touched by an ethanol plant fiasco “got it” but the environmental “light” crowd took a long time to understand that ethanol is a really bad idea. Because of wrapping ethanol in an environmental flag, even NPR was reluctant report the whole ethanol story.  You have engaged in the same special interest deals for which you are reprimanding others. How sad and shameful!

The New Geopolitics of Food by Lester Brown

Great Article
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/the_new_geopolitics_of_food

LA TIMES reports the ethanol subsidy elimination is attached to another bill

LA TIMES reports the ethanol subsidy elimination  is attached to another bill, so I guest we shouldn't get too excited yet........
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-senate-ethanol-20110617,0,6305383.story

YAY!!!! Senate votes to repeal ethanol subsidy..........

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ngreene/this_afternoon_the_us_senate.html#_logout

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/sanity-alert-senate-votes-to-end-billions-in-ethanol-subsidies/

http://online.wsj.com/community/groups/question-day-229/topics/should-federal-government-repeal-6

Senate Fails to End Ethanol Tax Credits

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/senate-vote-to-repeal-ethanol-tax-credit-fails-but-some-in-gop-break-ranks/2011/06/14/AGydKEVH_story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/us/politics/15senate.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/MN211JTLHJ.DTL

It is unbelievable! I wonder if the problem is that there are not enough people interested in the ethanol issue to get this legislation passed. Hardcore environmentalist and those touched by an ethanol plant fiasco “get it” but the environmental “light” crowd took a long time to understand that ethanol is a really bad idea. Meanwhile…….the greedy, dangerous ethanol investors jumped on reaping the subsidies. When will it end?

What is with Grover anyway? In 2004 Mike Mihalke (partner in Alexander Strategy Group and former press secretary for presidential candidate Rick Santorum) approached our rag-tag environmental group in a dark alley—not kidding, a dark alley--- and offered “help” fighting off an ethanol plant financially backed by Vinod Khosla’s Cilion. Although the names changed frequently when pressed, the clients Mihalke was working for included Americans For Tax Reform.  Are Grover and ATR changing their opinion on ethanol?

A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself..... New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/science/earth/05harvest.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

"Other factors contributed to demand, including a policy of converting much of the American corn crop into ethanol."