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Inconvenient Truth about Ethics:
The question now remains how long it will take before majority population segments in America and the rest of the world realize, as Australia now finally does, that they have been duped by unaffordable and unreliable climate benefit-premised ?green energy? promotions. For example, perhaps recall when then Vice President and presidential candidate Gore cast a tie-breaking 1994 Senate vote in favor of ethanol mandates.
Speaking in 2010 at a green energy business conference in Athens, Gore admitted: ?It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol.? Reuters quoted him saying in retrospect, ?First-generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small.? Gore then explained: ?One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa [the first-in-the-nation caucuses state] because I was about to run for president.?
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