Oct

Videos: Goober and Gomer in a flex fuel, plug-in hybrid? (Republicans debate PHEVs)

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Last night’s NBC Republican presidential debate took an unexpected turn to the green. For nearly half an hour, the candidates talked about alternatives to oil and ethanol. Senator Sam Brownback even talked about a flex-fuel, plug-in hybrid car. Sam went into specifics saying he would like to see an electric-only range of 20 to 30 miles on plug-in hybrids. You can watch the video of Sam talking about plug-in, flex fuels below the fold. Here is the quote:

“We’ve got to get increasingly electricity involved in our car fleet. There’s a Chevy Malibu parked out front here that’s a hybrid flex fuel. They’ve got hybrid cars; they’ve got flex fuel cars. I think that’s a big part of the reply. I’d like to see us move forward with getting those first 20 to 30 miles off of electricity that you plug into at night. That’s technology. We’re putting forward tax credits and incentives to try to move that forward. That’s something Detroit here needs to seize on, and is. And that can move us forward as an industry and as a country.”

As for

ethanol, Ron Paul does not support subsidies and neither does John McCain even though he drinks a glass of ethanol daily. In one of the funnier moments of the night, Mike Huckabee said we have to increase the pace of our support for ethanol. All the ethanol plans, Mike says, are for 15, 20 years in the future. Mike thinks we can do it in less than a decade whether we worked at it like a mission to the moon or (because Huckabee knows his audience) a Nascar pit stop. You can additionally watch that video below the fold. Here is the quote.

“We can’t wait until another generation. Instead of running it like Nascar, we’ve been running it like taking the family station wagon in for letting Goober and Gomer take a look at it when they get instance, under the shade tree.”

So, is Bush Goober or Gomer?

[Source: Mother Jones, Wall Street Journal]
Original post by Lascelles Linton