Comments on Advance Indiana™: Huffington Post On Lugar-Mourdock Differences On Ethanol

Dick Lugar's debate performance sent a clear m...

2012-04-13T07:04:28.513-05:00

Dick Lugar's debate performance sent a clear message to Hoosiers.

Here's what I heard:

After 36 years in the US Senate, Dick Lugar has helped to divert 40% of Indiana's corn crop into the heavily subsidized ethanol market, while doing nothing to reduce our dependency on Arab oil. We are still as dependent on Arab oil as we were in when Lugar took office in 1976. Dick Lugar still thinks we'll be impressed by his bragging about managing the Lugar family farm and his daily watching of the corn prices.

The creation of false markets (that is, creating tax-subsidized products and then forcing industries and consumers to buy them) is a game Democrat Joe Donnelly also loves to play with voters.

After 36 years in the US Senate, Dick Lugar, the crown jewel of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, still talks Cold War Era style diplomacy as our best missile defense. Dick Lugar still thinks the remedy is "containment" and "non-proliferation", all of which amount to the old Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) stand off defense.

The big thing Lugar let slip was that "On the Korean business . . . there is no stopping, for the moment, the Korean [missile] shot except for a missile control, which will we hope we can exercise in Japan on the way out."

Fact: A ballistic missile will reach the US in 33 minutes or less. Ronald Reagan urged us to create a ballistic missile defense, yet Dick Lugar has not embraced it and still our people are unprotected.

What I heard tells me that it's time for Dick Lugar to step down.
It's time for Richard Mourdock for US Senate.

Ethanol is horrible to stick into internal combust...

2012-04-13T07:01:34.785-05:00

Ethanol is horrible to stick into internal combustion engines. It gives less power than gasoline, runs too lean and hot and destroys engine gaskets and seals.

If you care about your car/motorcycle/waverunner, and you're willing to drive a little, find a gas station on this list, and get the good stuff. Your engine will run so much more smoothly and powerfully.

http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=IN

Is that the punchline to an economic joke, "e...

2012-04-12T22:09:27.103-05:00

Is that the punchline to an economic joke, "ethanol industry?"

Ethanol is indefensible as an alternative energy o...

2012-04-12T20:43:47.564-05:00

Ethanol is indefensible as an alternative energy option. Putting corn in a our fuel tank and driving up the price of food was one of the dumbest things we've ever done. And that's not even considering the huge amount of energy required to create ethanol.

The only people who still believe in ethanol are those getting wealthy off ethanol subsidies and mandates. I like that Mourdock is taking a principled position even though it might hurt him with some Hoosier farmers.