Who in their right mind thinks a sitting Senator from Texas could have even gotten on the ballot to run for the Senate in the first place were they not preaching the oil producers desire to get rid of the ethanol mandate?
I'm no fan of ethanol and see no reason for there to be a Federal mandate to add it to gasoline. I just don't see how Ted being against ethanol is anything other than Ted supporting the Texas producers desires. Nothing principled about it, really. Especially when his solution is a five year phase out that first has to get through Congress in any form, and then is in theory a five year program that puts the final elimination of the mandate neatly beyond the end of his current term in the Senate and were he to be elected, neatly beyond his first term as President.
Typical solution from a lawyer. A plan to take away the apple but to leave it around for five years so there are plenty of chances to take another bite or bargain a way to keep the apple around. Years to dicker over extending the phase out, ending ethanol as opposed to mandating it only for metropolitan areas, require it only where some air quality problem exists (with plenty of horse trading on what the definition of air quality is in various places), and so on. One thing for sure about lawyers, they're never going to do anything in a way that doesn't expand the opportunities for lawyers to make deals.
Ending the ethanol mandate is ending it, not phasing it out. Either the ethanol guys have already ripped us off enough and deserve whatever losses they take or they are special and deserve special consideration the rest of us aren't entitled to. A phase out is a cop out. Just a typical lawyer solution that tries to do what the sitting Senator from Texas has to do while not really shutting off the money tap for ethanol interests and selling that compromise in a way that makes goodie points with the gullible.
JMHo
Ethanol is just wrong....
even if stopping it helps oil, thats not proof Cruz works for oil...
Your premise is flawed.
Proving just because you comment on Free republic, and use big words you are smart.
America can ONLY be set right By standing on principals and standing for the constitution.
send Money to Ted Cruz..do it now!
or say goodbye to America and your freedom.