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To win of course. He is now a politician.
We’re talking about exporting oil. The “Reducing reliance on foreign” is a strawman.
Donald is OWNED by ‘Big Corn’ HAHA
Media whore?
I like Trump, but this is just pandering to the corn whores and it is definitely against this country’s best interests.
As a policy AND a fuel additive, ethanol subsidy is a no-go in my book on all counts.
He wants to reduce dependence on foreign oil 49%
Pandering 45 Don’t know 6
If he wanted less foreign oil (Canada is the one we import the most oil from), he could call for a tariff on imported oil, remove a few restrictions, and we'd produce our own. We have proven we are fully capable of that, especially in the last 10 years, when domestic production outstripped the Saudis.
The author is putting words in the mouths of low info voter by pandering to the low info voters.
Geez weez Louise, that ain’t a choice? /s
Because he’s brilliant, and you’re a GOPe hack for even daring to ask. ;-)
The better question would be, why wouldn’t Trump support government subsidies?
It’s not like he has ever had an ideological problem with them. I don’t think the idea that the government should be limited has ever crossed his mind.
* Make America energy independent
America has produced so much oil, has so much inventory, the whole sector is collapsing, pump prices now around $1.50 or less.
* Ethanol is supported by the Man-made Global Warming crowd as clean alternative to oil.
Any "clean alternative" is obliterated by its production & processing carbon footprint.
Let’s increase sugar subsidies, too.
The answer is simple, he wants to win Iowa. The real question ought to be, “what will he say February 15”?
He wants to reduce US dependence on foreign oil. (49%)
He is pandering to the Iowa caucus. (45%)
I don’t know. (6%)
Ditto what you said.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/ib_32.pdf
Some snippits:
THE HIDDEN CORN ETHANOL TAX
How Much Does the Renewable Fuel Standard Cost Motorists?
2005: Congress passes the Energy Policy Act, which requires the use of renewable motor fuel under a new mandate, the Renewable Fuel Standard.
2010: For the first time, ethanol plants become the biggest consumer of domestic corn, surpassing livestock feed.
2011: Federal subsidies for corn ethanol are eliminated. The RFS mandates remain in place.
2013: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announces that the size of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to be three times its normal size. In response, Larry McKinney, executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University;Corpus Christi, points a finger at fertilizer used in ethanol production.
January 2015: Iowa State University reports that 39 percent of the U.S. corn crop is being diverted to make ethanol.
III. CALCULATING THE RFS’s COST TO MOTORISTS
Since 1982, the price of an energy-equivalent volume of ethanol has, on average, been about 2.4 times the price of gasoline. Further, for eight years;1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1997, and 1998;ethanol cost at least three times more than an energy-equivalent amount of gasoline. Between 2007 and 2014, 92.5 billion gallons of ethanol were mixed into domestic gasoline supplies. Over the same eight-year period, the energy equivalent cost of ethanol over gasoline averaged about 90 cents per gallon. Motorists thus incurred about $83 billion-roughly $10 billion annually;in additional fuel costs over and above what they would have paid for gasoline alone.