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Law & Order & Ethanol
By Mr Ethanol | October 18, 2007
Hawaii Reporter:
Tonight’s CNBC/Wall Street Journal debate will be the first debate outing for Fred Thompson, who only joined the race last month and has yet to show just how well he can mix it up with his rivals in a high-stakes two-hour showdown. Reviews of Mr. Thompson on the stump have been mixed. Many audiences in Iowa and Florida like his authenticity and conversational style, but a group of free-market devotees meeting in Washington last Friday panned his performance as less than forceful and lacking specifics.
Tonight’s debate will focus on the economy, and let’s hope one question will concern corn ethanol, whose egregious and boneheaded subsidies apparently every Republican and Democratic candidate has now endorsed. The last possible holdout was Mr. Thompson, who consistently voted against ethanol when he was in the Senate between 1995 and 2003. Last week he too succumbed to ethanol fever. After touring an Iowa ethanol plant, he told reporters he had seen the light. “I think it’s a matter now of national security and we’ve got to avail ourselves of a lot of different resources, and I think renewable has to be a part of that picture,” he said. “Our need to move toward energy independence has become absolute, so much of our energy depends on troubled spots in the world. It’s just a different environment.”
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