Obama needs to repudiate the energy bill he voted for

this is a major sticking point for me.

Obama is to very pro-ethanol, as outlined on his website. He voted in favor of the recent energy bill which mandates massive increases in ethanol production. On the campaign trail he talks a lot about doing something about the skyrocketing food prices but he doesn't seem to realize that he is the one who helped create those high prices with his yes vote. Hillary voted against it.

If Hillary were a competent campaigner, she would focus on this very legitimate issue much more than she has, and how the bill and Obama's vote for it actually harms working families because it does nothing to reduce gas prices all while pushing food prices through the roof. Instead she chose to stick to the Mark Penn strategy of gotcha politics. Obama thanks you for not drawing attention to his major weaknesses on the issues.

I'm going to have a hard time supporting him in the GE if he doesn't admit his mistake on the ethanol issue. Because if he gets into the WH and continues to support it, it will just make the energy crisis worse for all of us.

right through Monday night!!!!

You are correct of course that corn based ethanol isn't a very efficient use of resources. Sugar beets or cane sugar is much more cost effective, and wouldn't drive up the cost of food grains.

However, I'm sure Hill won't say that in Indiana. They grow a lot of corn.

to the influence of corporate lobbyists and special interests in Washington?

Except the ones he himself is beholden to, right?



And ethanol is completely worthless as an alternative energy source.
It takes more than an gallon of energy to produce a gallon of ethanol(!)

Even with corn based ethanol.
However, it is much less efficient than beets or cane.
And corn based drives up food prices.

Hillary already had 8 years in the White House and corporate lobbyists and the corporate interest made huge gains.
It's time to let somebody else fuck things up.

By the way, there is no such measure as a "gallon of energy."

Right now, I'm pretty excited about alge biofuels.

Ethanol will be in our gas tanks. Any Senator who thinks he may have a future shot at being President or comes from a Midwestern state regardless of their party will be against this.

until the other two candidates start repudiating their bad votes/associations. Lay off him.

if Obama's supporters think he shouldn't be criticized when criticism is warranted or admit when he's wrong then he is no better than Hillary or even Bush.