Trumpander is in the house!!
Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal regulators should increase the amount of ethanol blended into the nation's gasoline supply.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, Trump, a real estate mogul and the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ought to follow the ethanol volumes Congress set in 2007.
"The EPA should ensure that biofuel... blend levels match the statutory level set by Congress under the [renewable fuel standard]," Trump said........"
October 2015 - Trump isn't going to GUT the EPA, he's going to make it more efficient ..."I'm not cutting services, but I'm cutting spending,", Trump told Wallace...Trump Vows To Cut 'Disgraceful' EPA
No, Ted Cruz Has Not Changed His Position On Ethanol
"Earlier today the internet was littered with bloggers crowing or, alternatively having full grown cows passed down their alimentary canal, over a report that Ted Cruz had caved to the Renewable Fuel Lobby and was suddenly supporting this boondoggle.
Most of you know the background. When Ted Cruz visited Iowa earlier in the year he rejected the mandate that gasoline contain ethanol, the so-called Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), in favor of letting the consumers decide if they wanted to use gasoline cut with ethanol. With the end of RFS, the subsidies that make the boondoggle a lucrative money extraction device for large agribusinesses would also come to an end. Since Cruz has been campaigning in Iowa, he has been dogged by a group owned by ethanol rent-seekers and run by the son of the Iowa governor bitching about how Cruz is threatening their gravy train."....
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Jan 7, 2016:
"....Sen. Ted Cruz in 2013 co-sponsored the "Renewable Fuel Standard Repeal Act," which would immediately repeal the ethanol mandate.
In 2014, he introduced a broad energy bill that would wind down the mandate over five years, slashing the federally mandated volume of renewable fuels (including corn ethanol) by 20 percent every year for five years.
Last night in Cherokee, Iowa, Cruz said again that he believed in "a gradual phaseout" of the mandate over five years. The ethanol lobby group - America's Renewable Future - responded to this by declaring that Cruz had decided to "listen to Iowa farmers."
"During a bus tour stop in Sioux Center, Iowa last night," the group said in a statement, "Senator Ted Cruz expressed support for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) through 2022."
The thing is, while this represents a shift from 2013, it has been Cruz's position since 2014. Cruz's campaign confirmed to me that he still would slash the mandate every year - so that by the end of his first term, mandated levels would be only 1/5th of what they would otherwise be - meaning the mandated levels would drop each year instead of rising each year.
So it was misleading for ARF - and for me - to represent Cruz's comments in Cherokee as a flip-flop.
Unlike other Republican candidates, Cruz wouldn't leave the RFS alone until 2022 (notably, that's in the theoretical second term of the next president), but he would cut it each year of his presidency."..... ... CORRECTED: Cruz still favors slashing ethanol mandate every year for five years
Trump - he'll do what's best for.......well, Trump.
It makes so much sense to burn our food supply while decreasing the mileage our cars get while increasing the amount of pollution in the atmosphere, and increase the wear and tear on the engines those cars use. And while we are at why not just destroy small, air-cooled engines for lawn mowers, chainsaws and the like? That’ll really stimulate the economy because people will have to buy more of them to replace the destroyed ones!
One of our cars cannot burn the gas with the higher ethanol mix. It will damage the engine. So we have to be sure of the mix before we pump gas.
Using food for fuel has always seemed counterproductive to me.
The Trump advantage: Believe nothing. Say anything to get elected.
Exactly the move I’d expect from a big government hump - in his worldview, government exists to make business men wealthy and the common people get ice skating rinks and shit. You suckers are so dumb it’s mind boggling. “He cares about us! He loves America! He gets things done! He mocks my enemies!” Sold your political souls for shiney trinkets.
Trump: Same song, second verse. Not what’s best for the country but what’s best for him. Enough is enough.
Trumpander is in the house!!
I would bet the bank, that if Trump gets elected president, he will phase out these mandates...
Using food for fuel to run our cars, is sinful.
The man want’s to be president, and he’s selling his soul in Iowa to get elected. No one, except people like us, are going to remember that he was for the mandates...
And Palin’s stand on this???
We need to “repurpose” ethanol.
Stop putting it in our gas and start putting it into every murdering rapist country. Black market so much of it that they are all falling-down-drunk all the time and become hopelessly addicted to it...then start legitimately importing it....then raise the price.
That way, the farmers can keep production up and we can solve the terrorism problem by weaponizing ethanol.
Once again, Trump attacks Ted Cruz from the left.
When will Republicans, and Freepers, EVER learn?
We have GOT to go to a single-day national primary.
We cannot allow a few small states to continue extorting goodies from the rest of us simply because of the calendar.
Just say no to Iowa farmers trying hold the party hostage to their greed.