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[Gen.Blather]

I’m so tired of having to treat gas, use gas that’s getting old, etc. Ethanol gas is entirely a program to give crony farmer companies tax money. I’d love for a class action suit against the responsible parties for all those ruined small engines.

[Barkeep99]

By all means make RFS an issue. I would like to know candidate’s position. Regardless of their stand on anything else I will vote against anyone in favor of rurning food into fuel.

[Boomer One]

People all over the world are starving and we want to turn food into gas? I just don’t get it at this time when oil is plentiful. I do believe in bio fuels and think continued research is warranted, but forced use of ethanol is not required at this time. Engines are just not ready for ethanol. I spend a good portion of my time in a farming environment where locals gladly pay extra for non-ethanol gas to preserve their equipment. Another case in point is the voiding of car warranties where ethanol content was increased. America is blessed with a good farming climate and technology. Export corn at a fair trade price and I doubt we’d see lobbies pushing for more ethanol in our gas.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sooner or later this electorate is going to experience projectile vomiting over crony capitalism. Woe be to any of these types who find themselves on the wrong side of it.

[McGruff]

Blackmail.

[montag813]

We should cancel every single penny for ethanol subsidies, and hand the cash over to subsidize the shale oil industry, to deflect the Saudi attempt at destruction. This is about freeing ourselves from the camel jockeys once and for all.

[Will88]

To the extent that ethanol politics pollutes the Iowa caucus process, the results should be dismissed. Actually, no state where such a narrow, crony capitalist issue exists should be the first presidential primary results.

[headstamp 2]

They want that 15% mix in gasoline.

[AU72]

King Corn returns.

[Pollster1]

I’m a big fan of farmers, but a real farmer does not need federal mandates to force people to buy and burn their crops. This law has got to go, and conservatives should stand up for killing it along with Obamacare and all other forms of crony capitalism.

[G Larry]

Corn is FOOD.

Ethanol:
A - Ruins engines,
B - Has ZERO effect on pollutants per mile, because it reduces gas mileage.
C - The reduced engine performance noted in “B”, demonstrates why “A” is true.

Using higher corn prices to buy more farm votes is disgusting.

[The Great RJ]

Ethanol is a huge boondoggle that enriches farmers and a few large companies and does nothing to reduce our dependence on oil, encourages farming practices that hurt the environment more than any benefit from renewable fuels and exists solely because of government subsidies from planting the corn to pumping the ethanol into your tank. It would be cheaper if the federal government just wrote subsidy checks directly to corn farmers.

[TYVets]

Crony capitalism at work

[rottndog]

Would it be bad for to tell Iowans to go to hell?

[EternalVigilance]

“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.”

— Frederic Bastiat, the Law, 1850