Gettin’ Political, pt. II: Gettin’ Political-er

While the rest of the country freaks out about Obama’s stupid but ultimately inconsequential “lipstick on a pig” comment, we’d like to mention that he, unlike John McCain, supports the ethanol mandate. Obama has plainly stated his views on the subject, noting that he is “strongly committed to advancing biofuels as a key component of reducing our dependence on foreign oil.”

Now, we understand that ethanol is kind of our bag here at Corn Car, and we don’t want to come off like single-issue voters who can’t see the big picture, but almost the entire aim of our foreign policy over the last fifty years has been about access to fuel. It’s gotten us into some trouble recently, and the disgusting contraption of profiteering and corruption beneath it has been exposed in the process.

And not only that, but the inevitability of global warming and its effects on the weather could very seriously impact fuel imports. When Ethanol Producer Magazine’s Mike Bryan says, referring to Hurricane Gustav, that “the fact that a hurricane could disrupt 25 percent of the energy supply of an entire nation is troubling,” he’s raising a candid point that few others have brought up, and is underlining why we can’t base our entire fuel supply on imports. And, less directly, why we can’t depend on just oil anymore. So the ethanol mandate represents, to us anyway, a willingness to accept our fuel crisis for what it is and build towards a longterm plan to fix it. And as we see it, Obama comes the closest to commanding that kind of vision.

Anyway, enough of all that. Time for a cartoon.