Posted on 12/01/2015 12:52:20 PM PST by springwater13
Ted Cruz is under attack. The Texas senator's rise in Iowa presidential surveys has attracted criticism from all sides.
America's Renewable Future, a bipartisan political group with the support of ethanol and agricultural industry workers, unleashed new digital and radio ads attacking Cruz in Iowa. The senator's opposition to ethanol mandates has drawn the ire of ARF, whose ads claim that Cruz's policy proposals "threaten rural Iowa and thousands of jobs."
"Politicians like Ted Cruz are the worst kind: Hypocrites," the ad says. "There are millions of reasons Ted Cruz supports Big Oil instead of Iowa farmers. Call politician Ted Cruz. Tell him to stop being a hypocrite and support Iowa jobs."
Cruz opposes the Renewable Fuel Standard, which determines the amount of ethanol and other renewable fuels that must be blended into gasoline. Annette Sweeney, a former Republican state representative and ARF co-chair, said Cruz has not been honest about his opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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The problem is his position.
Cruz has a blind dogmatic adherence to anything that sounds like free trade and/or opposing government interference and he doesn’t think it through.
Thus if Obama asks for fast track authority for free trade deals, Cruz is there for him, even if Cruz doesn’t know what’s in Obama’s trade deal. And even though existing so-called free trade deals have devastated our industries.
Ethanol is not much different. Cruz is against it because “government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers”. There is no strategic thought to our long term energy strategy. In Cruz’s mind the government shouldn’t even have a strategy. There is no strategic thought to our dependence on terrorist supporting states for fuel.
In short, Cruz doesn’t know when to use government power to help the free enterprise system of this country. He thinks government should never be involved.
Our founding fathers used protective tariffs for the first 180 years of this country’s existence and they worked well. In Cruz’s mind that’s unnecessary interference. Cruz would have us all reduced to Chinese labor wages, because that’s what a blind ideology like Cruz’s will result in.
Trump on the other hand understands that the free market must be protected from communist governments and unbalanced trade deals that kill American jobs.
The Ethanol program needs to be reviewed. Generally I’m against massive government support of unproven technologies. But I’m very much in favor of Government funding research in areas such as alternative fuels that could be critical to our future energy supply.
When the Ethanol program first rolled out it seemed nonsensical. They added 10% ethanol and our gas mileage dropped 10%. What was the point? But now the cars are better able to use the fuel and it it makes us more energy dependent and helps defund terrorist supporting states then maybe it’s a keeper. I don’t know. I just know that Cruz has a blind ideology and that’s not good.
And for the record, I’d rather have a leader with a blind ideology in favor of free trade as opposed to a blind ideology in favor of government planning. But I’d much rather have a leader that has a preference for free markets and the wisdom to keep other countries from destroying our free markets.
The problem is his position.
Cruz has a blind dogmatic adherence to anything that sounds like free trade and/or opposing government interference and he doesn’t think it through.
Thus if Obama asks for fast track authority for free trade deals, Cruz is there for him, even if Cruz doesn’t know what’s in Obama’s trade deal. And even though existing so-called free trade deals have devastated our industries.
Ethanol is not much different. Cruz is against it because “government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers”. There is no strategic thought to our long term energy strategy. In Cruz’s mind the government shouldn’t even have a strategy. There is no strategic thought to our dependence on terrorist supporting states for fuel.
In short, Cruz doesn’t know when to use government power to help the free enterprise system of this country. He thinks government should never be involved.
Our founding fathers used protective tariffs for the first 180 years of this country’s existence and they worked well. In Cruz’s mind that’s unnecessary interference. Cruz would have us all reduced to Chinese labor wages, because that’s what a blind ideology like Cruz’s will result in.
Trump on the other hand understands that the free market must be protected from communist governments and unbalanced trade deals that kill American jobs.
The Ethanol program needs to be reviewed. Generally I’m against massive government support of unproven technologies. But I’m very much in favor of Government funding research in areas such as alternative fuels that could be critical to our future energy supply.
When the Ethanol program first rolled out it seemed nonsensical. They added 10% ethanol and our gas mileage dropped 10%. What was the point? But now the cars are better able to use the fuel and it it makes us more energy dependent and helps defund terrorist supporting states then maybe it’s a keeper. I don’t know. I just know that Cruz has a blind ideology and that’s not good.
And for the record, I’d rather have a leader with a blind ideology in favor of free trade as opposed to a blind ideology in favor of government planning. But I’d much rather have a leader that has a preference for free markets and the wisdom to keep other countries from destroying our free markets.
bARF ALERT.
The corn for fuel ethanol comes from increased production, which is why the price of corn hovers around cost of production.
The world is not short of sugar and carbs, and the more-valuable protein from corn makes it into the food chain, not lost to the production of ethanol.
The problem that I have with the policital cartoon is the following. While Cruzs stance against federal funding for INTRAstate commerce, farming subsidies in this example, reflects the correct interpretation of the Constitution, instead of Cruz preparing to blow up the taxpayer dollar truck as if the issue was a matter of opinion, the cartoonist should be pointing out the statements below by state sovereignty-respecting justices.
These statements indicate that the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce, including subsidizing agriculture.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” - United States v. Butler, 1936.
With all due respect to Sen. Cruz, since he probably does not read FR then I would not be surprised if he does not know this.
Iowa is a big supplier of ethanol. If he showed them they could make a lot more money exporting their corn, rather than wasting it on fuel additives, they would say he was wonderful. It's all about economics.
Vote your conscience, as I am not trying to sway you in the least.
He thinks government should never be involved.....Smart man, that Cruz. Constitution doesn’t mandate it.
Cruz is right.
Bottom line: Corn-fed ethanol is not more economical and causes no better emissions. It’s a tool for cronyism and government subsidies to promote the corporate welfare of farmers. That helps the crooked politicians and farmers but no one else.
Just what is a good reason to continue subsidizing farmers to grow corn for ethanol instead of using it for food?
Was he smart when he was supporting Obama’s TPP?
The US is by far the world’s largest exporter of corn. Corn exports account for 10-15 percent of production.
Crony capitalism CONTROLS the GOP 100%.
Nothing like it in history. Totally corrupt.
Good idea. It might be hard to implement, but good idea.
You Trumpophiles love to tear down the opposition with specious arguments while being totally oblivious to the shortcomings of YOUR preferred candidate.
Remind me a lot of the Paulbots of old.
They could still export more.
It’s a world market. South America and eastern Europe are also big corn exporters.
Value-added products almost always make more profit than commodity grain.
Feed for beef then. I hate ethanol. Really bad on your car too.
Or TPA?
Fuel ethanol from corn actually subsidizes chicken and pork production (DDGS), which is why it’s a more insidious problem than most realize. Cows love the distiller’s grain too, but it’s a wash because corn takes away some acres from hay.
Reminiscent of:. It's the economy, stupid (not you LOL)
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