Oilman T Boone Pickens on Bob Dole.
Pickens hated Dole & Agribusiness love of Corn ethanol. Told Dole, its a fuel that requires more energy (and oil+subsidies) to produce than it delivers at the pump.
Dole:math is 21 farm states =42 Senators
Result?
features.propublica.org/palm-oil/palm-…
Pickens hated Dole & Agribusiness love of Corn ethanol. Told Dole, its a fuel that requires more energy (and oil+subsidies) to produce than it delivers at the pump.
Dole:math is 21 farm states =42 Senators
Result?
features.propublica.org/palm-oil/palm-…
2/Witnessing the disaster in Indonesia in 2015 was devastating. Most ppl outside Midwest don't know that 2007 RFS mandate replaced 10% of each gallon of gas sold in the US with corn ethanol. It was pushed by all major envtl group then. Horrifying impact.
https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1110977685679824896
3/ Corn: US's leakiest oil pipeline. Hated by Oil companies, but such is power of Agribusiness.
Fossil fuel goes into tractors & fertilizers & comes out as corn-ethanol, that is put back into....cars, tractors. 10% of every gallon of gas in the US is corn ethanol. Thank Dole.
Fossil fuel goes into tractors & fertilizers & comes out as corn-ethanol, that is put back into....cars, tractors. 10% of every gallon of gas in the US is corn ethanol. Thank Dole.
4/ Bob Dole led the Farm lobby's commercial ties with China. "Who Feeds China" was and remains the pivotal question for global agribusiness. Dole got US farmers to cultivate China as an export market for Soy, Wheat, Corn. Farming lobby remains counterweight to GOP/US China hawks
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