Iowa Poll: Likely caucusgoers favor ethanol mandate
Support for the mandate is lower among likely Republican caucusgoers, but still a solid majority, at 61 percent. Thirty-four percent oppose it, and 5 percent aren’t sure.
Donald Trump is still fighting WW II. He just attacked Ted Cruz over ethanol subsidies. The Trump has still not gotten the memo.
Now that fuel, corn-based ethanol, finds itself threatened with a defection that was once unthinkable: Iowa voters.If accurate, the timing has a twinkle of the divine to it.
I’ve noticed that I get much better mileage with 100% gas than I do with any ethanol blend.
It’s not saving gas because I’m burning more in my car than before.
Back to all gas....
The ethanol-corn subsidy is SOOO wrong. It has the net effect of tying the price of food grains to the world price of substitute-able hydrocarbons from crude oil. The “ethanol mandate” for motor vehicle fuels means that a gasoline distributor must be willing to pay whatever the price is for enough ethanol he needs to blend with the amount of gasoline the public needs.
Then prices for farm land, farm equipment and supplies is bid up by higher prices that come from the government subsidy. Farmers go in to debt to expand but government will eventually get exhausted by the burden of the subsidy expense. The subsidy will get cut, but the debt remains. When farm land prices fall, the loan collateral covenants will be breached and the loan foreclosed on.
We are still debating about the net environmental benefit. All for the vain Utopian concept of “sustainability”.
ethanol ruins small engines, finally we can buy ethanol free. Why not just stop adding it altogether?