Senator John McCain, campaigning in Iowa: “On the subject of ethanol, I will open every market in the world to the best products in the world, and that’s the American agricultural farmer.”
Governor Sarah Palin, also campaigning in Iowa: “John and I will adopt the all-of-the-above approach to meet America’s great energy challenges…that means harnessing alternative sources like the wind, and the solar and the bio mass and the geothermal and the ethanol, and we’ll develop clean coal technology. And we’ll drill for the billions of barrels of oil that we have right now warehoused underground included our resources offshore. We will drill here and drill now, and now’s when you chant, ‘Drill, baby, drill.’”
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