Is Gore any better now than he was when he backed ethanol?

Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"If Al Gore admits he once backed stupid policies just for the popularity and the cash, who’s to say this Nobel Prize-winning “carbon billionaire” isn’t doing the same today?

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore reportedly has had a change of heart on ethanol, telling a conference on green energy in Europe that he only supported tax breaks for the alternative fuel to pander to farmers in his home state of Tennessee and the first-in-the-nation caucuses state of Iowa. ..."