Buy your fuel from Iowa,
or al-Queda and al-Exxon
take your pick
And just like that, the irrational is rationalized... Because Trump supports it. Amazing.
We’ve got a glut of oil. Even before all this new fracking we bought less than 10% of the oil we use from the middle east. The oil is far cheaper than ethanol and provides more energy per gallon. Consumers go further for less cost.
And if ethanol made any economic sense whatsoever, it wouldn’t have to be mandated by big government. People would do it because it made sense to. God forbid letting the consumer decide...
or the feds could let go of more oil leases and we could make our own fuel
I'll buy my fuel from Texas and North Dakota. Don't you know that now the US is now nearly energy independent. And we would be totally independent if the government didn't force us to waste our resources on the ridiculous notion that you can turn corn into automotive fuel. That's only true if you ignore the diesel fuel, and petroleum based fertilizers used to grow it. In most cases, it takes more oil to produce corn than in the energy it provides.
Buy your fuel from Iowa,
or al-Queda and al-Exxon
take your pick””
Iowa is clearly the enemy.
or al-Queda and al-Exxon
That's a false choice. We have more than enough petroleum, natural gas and coal to be energy independent. The problem has always been the government trying to keep us from developing and using the resources we have. Making ethanol requires the expenditure of large amounts of fossil fuels, not to mention the amount of water, fertilizer, etc.
Is ethanol a good alternative energy source? It appears that is an open question, with supporters and detractors. What is NOT in question is that the Federal government should not be involved. If ethanol is a good product, it will have a market and willing buyers without a mandate.
It is amazing to me to see the number of people arguing for government mandates. Most of the people here would say they opposed Obamacare, but are now supporting the ethanol mandate - primarily because Trump is supporting it. It goes to prove the point that most Trump supporters are not conservative nor constitutionalists - they are populists and libertarians that are trying to pass as conservatives.
I can buy my fuel from North Dakota, Texas, California, Colorado, even Florida. Ethanol isn’t fuel; it’s fraud. Forcing consumers to buy a product that wouldn’t exist in a free market is not rational.
Feel free to drink all the ethanol you desire. The rest of us prefer not to subsidize your further destruction of our economy and infrastructure.