Posted on 02/03/2016 5:29:35 AM PST by thackney
‘Cruz victory threatens ethanol’s power’
They say that like it’s a bad thing. Let ethanol stand without govt crutches, if it can.
I, for one, want ethanol OUT of my gasoline. It damages engines. To protect them, you have to buy additives, which adds to the price of fuel.
Once an industry or state gets on federal welfare, it’s like breaking a heroin habit. Ethanol dirties the environment, damages engines and has no benefit except buying votes for politicians.
I don't see it so much as a victory for "Big Oil" as a victory for small engines.
If the market wants ethanol, there will be a market for ethanol. The mandate is as damaging and unnecessary as the agency to oversee it.
Ethanol from corn for gasoline is stupid.
Ethanol has killed more small engines that Cash for Clunkers.
“This was not about Ted Cruz, and it was never about Ted Cruz. It was about moving everyone — and also, Ted Cruz moved,” said Eric Branstad, the state director of pro-ethanol group America’s Renewable Future and Terry Branstad’s son. “
Stick it up your crony, Eric.
Correct. Cruz isn’t threatening ethanol. He is threatening ethanol subsidies...ALL subsidies on energy, in fact. Let the free market decide what is best. Open things up so vehicles that use e-25, etc. can be made or imported to the USA. The corn farmers who depend on Gubmint subsidies will be glad that Cruz is president. They’ll be able to increase their business by quite a lot.
I am a Trump supporter, but I salute Cruz for taking his principled stand
Ethanol can still thrive. . . . In the private sector and not on the backs of the taxpayer.
Hog and beef farmers will be thankful for less expensive feed. It may be the deciding factor in saving their farm.
If the only thing Cruz ever accomplishes is the ultimate death of the Ethanol Teat Suckers, his candidacy will have been well worthwhile.
Last time I checked Cruz won’t have a line-item veto.
Ain’t enough votes in Congress to repeal Obamacare or impeach Obama. But overriding a Cruz veto on ethanol....that they can get done.
Let’s not forget, 10% ethanol in your gasoline results in a 10% reduction in fuel mileage. We’re still burning the same amount of petroleum, just subsidizing the ethanol industry and corn growers. Welfare, by another name.
I wonder who are the big ethanol investors?
It should threaten Iowa’s first in the nation status as well. We cannot afford to be blackmailed by the ethanol lobby every four years.
As it should.
That stuff is ruinous to fuel systems and engines and is completely unnecessary.
I wonder if Trump would have won Iowa if he had come out against it?
Seemed like the natural position for him to take, but he didn’t.
“I wonder who are the big ethanol investors?”
http://farmindustrynews.com/ethanol/5-largest-ethanol-producers
These are just a few makers.
The other big beneficiaries are the corn famers who are mostly large-scale commercial enterprises, not your mom and pop farmers.
http://www.nffc.net/Learn/Fact%20Sheets/King%20Corn%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
“He is backed by big oil,”
He is backed by free enterprise Americans like me.
Exactly who is the ‘big oil’ you are referring to?
Do you even realize that the proverbial ‘Seven Sisters’ of old literature has been whittled down to a paltry 4 now? These 4 control a minority of the petroleum activity in this country or elsewhere.
‘Big Oil’ hearkens back to a time prior to OPEC. It is no longer. The only ‘big oil’ around anymore is the oil-producing countries of the world, not oil companies, who practice monopolistic practices to manipulate world supply and oil price.
And OPEC thank God is getting throttled badly as it has lost control of the market due to the innovation of oil companies, including big oil companies, that produce the oil and gas we use in this country.
Your anger is misplaced, friend.
“Hog and beef farmers will be thankful for less expensive feed. It may be the deciding factor in saving their farm.”
Food prices, especially staples like bacon, rib-eyes and corn whiskey should go down as the use of corn ethanol declines.
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