Posted on 12/01/2015 3:36:47 PM PST by Isara
Sure thing!
The sooner they get that ethanol crap out of gas the better. It screws up carburetors,lowers gas mileage and uses more energy than it produces. It’s a classic Washington screw up.
He is a freaking Unicorn so we better appreciate this moment in time. He will make an amazing President of the United States and turn this thing around.
Commodity prices are very low right now. Corn is half the price it was three years ago. So MidWest corn farmers are super incentivized not to lose their ethanol subsidies
Congrats to Cruz for standing his ground on this.
The pollutant issue is that with the poorer mileage, your pollutants per mile are higher.
The engine wear is from the higher temps.
And whoever was ns the nomination has a chance of influencing his subsidies are awarded.
Yes they are, grain farmers are in a world of hurt.
The best way an ordinary salaried worker can under stand it would be to imagine having to write a big check to the employer every Friday, and not be allowed to quit.
It’s a lot more complicated than that, or course, but there it is in the simplest of terms.
In other words, to hell with America. SHOW ME DA MONEY!
The ethanol subsidies ended a couple years ago but the mandate still remains.
IOW you farm at a loss for a particular year and it might stretch out to a few years. And you are locked into slaving away due to the loans and leases you have signed. I think I could only handle (mentally) one year like that. Not two in a row
FU Ethanol pimps, blow it out your behinds.
It takes a special breed to farm, because those losses can stretch on a long time.
When that occurs, the burden can also stay for years, or, in rare occasion the ledger can suddenly balance with one or two really good years.
“what would you do if you suddenly had $10 million dollars?
Answer, farm until it’s gone.”
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FWIW, Walker had what was easily the best ethanol solution.
Not the one reported in the press, and repeated here on FR ad nauseam in order to help take him out.
The real one, the one that came from his own lips.
I still have that somewhere, but generally it was introducing a complete no-subsidies, market driven approach, and without any government mandated fuel content regulation.
The end result would have been a greatly reduced amount of ethanol corn.
Some would still be produced, simply because, in spite of what is usually spouted here on the emotion driven threads, a very strong financial case has been proven for years of the great value of the feedstuffs from this corn.
Research supporting that has been replicated over and over again on hundreds of thousands of animals.
I will say that I haven’t read Cruz’s approach, but at first glance it looks like his will drive a lot of farmers into quick bankruptcy.
Maybe I’m wrong about the Cruz position, after all, the lies were so thick about the Walker solution it was damn near impossible to even find out exactly what he did propose.
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