[Rashputin]

Is the EPA a creation of Congress or an entity dictated by the Constitution ?

Does the 17th Amendment alter the original Constitution?

An honest answer to both those questions undermines your entire argument that equates keeping an EPA ethanol mandate with something not found in the Original Constitution prior to an Amendment being passed.

[tacticalogic]

An honest answer to both those questions undermines your entire argument that equates keeping an EPA ethanol mandate with something not found in the Original Constitution prior to an Amendment being passed.

You're absolutely right. One of them is a legitimate change to the Constitution, done in accordance with original intent.

The other is a flat-out fraudulent usurpation of power never intended by the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution, and never altered by the process of amendment.

There is no comparison.