Reply #22: Thanks

[karynnj]

I was making the point that Democrats, involved on environmental issues have spoken on this. The Kerry book which was released in March 2007 - and written in the 2005 and 2006 was one instance that I could put a definitive date to. It was spoken of - by Teresa that I for sure - in Iowa in 2004.

With Gore, even if he did take the easy road in the 1990s, he has done more than anyone to educate the American people on the need to deal with climate change. The fact is that the political calculation of pushing it in the 1990s could have been worth that damage if it were needed to get him elected President so he could seriously deal with climate change. Two of the people who worked with him from the 1980s were John Kerry and John Heinz.

The credit for ethanhol does end this year -

"Domestic ethanol producers are facing the expiration at the end of this year of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, also known as VEETC and the blender's tax credit. The federal benefit that started in 2005 gives a tax credit of 51 cents for every gallon of pure ethanol blended into gasoline. Reps. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) and John Shimkus (R-Ill.) have introduced legislation with a five-year extension of the benefit.

The tax credit could be worth plenty in the future. The 2007 energy bill created a requirement that the United States use 36 billion gallons a year of biofuels by 2022. That created a demand for ethanol, Green said, because it is the most readily available biofuel. Cellulosic biofuel crops including switch grass, wood chips and the nonfood parts of corn have obstacles including higher production costs, he said."

(Green is an AEI person, who told the Finance committee that we could "adapt" to climate change in a very intense grilling by Kerry.)

In the something I didn't know category - Wes Clark is the co-chair of Growth Energy.

""Ethanol is America's fuel: It's made here in the U.S., it creates U.S. jobs, and it contributes to America's national and economic security," said retired Gen. Wesley Clark, Growth Energy's co-chairman. "This ad campaign is designed to reach beyond the Beltway to communicate those facts about ethanol to the broader American public -- people who until now have only heard one side of the story."

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/04/13/13greenwire-rival-ethanol-trade-groups-campaigning-to-woo-s-2028.html