Most farmers are Republican with the exception of corn growers. Those that grow corn reap huge profits due to the federal mandates for ethanol in gasoline.
Actually I am a great proponent of ethanol. It should be put in charred oak barrels and loving cared for for years. Preferably 12 years are more. We then call it sour mash whiskey and I buy it a very premium price.
Fuel ethanol seems a fig leaf. When the amount of petroleum-based energy needed to create it is accounted for, have we saved importing a drop? You’d think we would be hearing about how greenly the ethanol farms were being managed, but opening the issue would probably end up with some embarrassing questions being asked.