Hopefully she opposes subsidies for brown energy like oil and coal. That only make sense. Does she oppose subsidies to farms? I believe there were stories about farm subsidies going to her from a family farm she has interest in.

Its time for Ms. Bachman to realize that this isn't her time. Her "say it and hope its right" speaking style may work for the voters in her district who know her best, but to the wider public she appears reckless and uninformed. As a Republican, I honestly feel that it is more important to win the presidency than it is to be dogmatically perfect. We need independent voters to get there ... a long known fact. Ms. B. can't bring anyone who can spell "moderate" into her camp. Her kind of absolutism went out with the Inquisition and the Middle Ages.

Michelle Bachmann must follow the party line on ethanol which will indicate she follows, not leads on important issues that she only half understands. The EPA and most major university studies conducted in the past decade have pointed to the positive energy balance of ethanol over fossil-based fuels. In fact, the most thorough and longest study every completed by the EPA led to the government recommendation to move from 10 to 15% blend for most vehicles. This has nothing to say about the benefits to the air quality and to our dependence on oil from unreliable parts of the world.

This is a common sense issue and not a Bachmann or party line policy thing.

Ethanol, regardless of the price you pay for it, contains less energy than gasoline. This means that your car won't go as far on a gallon of E85, and your fuel economy will decrease by 20-30 percent, so even if the price of E85 at the pump is cheaper than gasoline, using ethanol may not be less expensive in the end.

The commodity prices for basic foods produced can be higher than they would be if ethanol was not produced.  Farmers receive subsidies for producing corn ethanol, so financially it makes sense to do that.  But, here in the US, where ethanol is made from corn, the country could not meet all of its needs even if all the available farmland was used exclusively to grow corn.

Ethanol prices fluctuate on a different cycle than gasoline, meaning that ethanol is sometimes cheaper but sometimes more expensive, but that doesn't always show at the pump because of Government subsidies.  

And don't forget the added cost of transporting, storing and blending corn ethanol, making gasoline that can be blended with corn ethanol, subsidies paid to blender, damage to infrastructure and user's engine, lost energy, less efficient fuel, and cost increases for our families food. 

Bottom line is Corn ethanol is energy intensive to produce, and today is not cost effective without Government subsidies. 

Time for ethanol to stand on it's own. Make it or break it.

Hey Deek!!!

You know nothing about my nature. Zip, zero, nada.

Informative story about Michele - http://www.american-reporter.com/4,326/53.html