If it wasn’t already, it is now reasonable to question each savory morsel of Al Gore’s enviro-babble. Heck, go ahead and pitch that not-quite-dog-eared gift copy of “An Inconvenient Truth” into the recycle bin.
You see, Gore recently admitted that at least part of his green activism has hurt the country and was raw political opportunism.
No really, he said so. Speaking at a “green energy” conference in Greece, he renounced his early support for ethanol.
“It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for [corn-based] ethanol,” said Gore, who in the ’90s cast a tie-breaking Senate vote to uphold a requirement that ethanol be blended into the nation’s fuel supply.
So, now that ethanol is getting $8 billion a year in U.S. subsidies — subsidies that will not end even though Cap’n Planet himself admits they’re bad policy — he issues the equivalent of a “My bad.”