Thu
Feb 21 2008
06:48 am
By: bizgrrl
Austin (Tex-Mex) Texas, 8 PM EST, CNN.
43,000 apply for 200 tickets available to the public. There will be 2,000 in the audience and millions watching from afar.
A sampling of questions the sports-minded propose for the debate.
RE: IMMIGRATION
Should Texas be allowed to build a border fence to keep out football recruiters from Oklahoma?
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More questions
As long as they don't have any more "which baseball team do you cheer for" questions. Mercy.
On a more serious note, I think they should be asked why it is a smart policy to continue to subsidize the production of corn ethanol, given that (1) the process is an energy loser, and (2) it is consuming increasing amounts of valuable farmland while food prices are skyrocketing.
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
Yeah, isn't ethanol a
Yeah, isn't ethanol a non-issue after Iowa?
The debate is sponsored by the "clean coal" industry
So there's no fear of any questions about global climate change.
Whew!