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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.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/caucus/2015/12/17/iowa-poll-caucusgoers-favor-ethanol-mandate/77370882/

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The Republican presidential contender now polling strongest in Iowa, Ted Cruz, is campaigning on an energy platform that would have been a death wish in elections past. Cruz, the U.S. senator from Texas, is an unabashed opponent of giving ethanol any special government help. He derides it as the worst kind of central planning. He champions legislation to wipe out the decade-old Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates large amounts of ethanol get blended into the nation’s gas supply.

That is the conservative free market way.