Reform of the Renewable Fuels Standard(NOT!)

I don’t sell corn, but I’ve watched the industry grow and used it in my own vehicles since the mid 70s. You favor the oil industry approach and I favor the capturing of solar energy by plants as very efficient way to produce a portable fuel source. What would you replace ethanol with that is both octane boosting and cleaner burning? And no one, has forced you to buy it. Drive 30 miles and quit whining or ride a bicycle. You could probably stand to lose the weight.

Food and fuel are not expensive in this country. You should see what they cost in other countries. I’m not talking about two wrongs, I’m talking about all wrongs, all subsidies. You selectively wish to keep your own and attack others. That’s called hypocrisy.

Most freepers know nothing about modern agriculture. They don’t have a clue and I suspect you don’t either.

As has been shown throughout this thread, your reading comprehension leaves something to be desired. As I said, the use of adulterated gasoline is mandated by the government. You're the one supporting government regulation of and intervention in the marketplace. I simply want to scrap it.

You selectively wish to keep your own and attack others. That’s called hypocrisy.

Feel free to point out anywhere in my post where I said that I wanted to selectively keep other regulations. I thought I was quite plain and straightforward, but I'll say it again to see if maybe repetition can beat the concept into your head. I want all regulations that pick and choose winners and losers in the marketplace done away with. We know from experience that such things distort markets and the decisions that otherwise would be made in a free markets. You're the one arguing for government rule by fiat, not I.

We know that adulterated gasoline has bad effects on small engines. We also know that gasoline contains more energy than alcohol, and is thus more efficient. It takes the government pointing a gun to our heads, and telling us that you may not sell unadulterated gasoline in the vast majority of the nation to make it even worthwhile to transport it, because most folks would prefer the 10-15% better mileage you get with actual gasoline as opposed to the adulterated slop they force upon us.

It is sad to see someone on a conservative forum ppushing government interventionism. Fortunately, it looks like not very many people are interested in drinking the cool-aid. I'm sure there are other places where you'll find a warmer reception for your interventionist crap.

You are not a conservative, you are a libertarian. You point that out on your homepage promotional. You also know naught about gasoline. Gasoline without additives is not useable. All gasoline now and for the last 70 years or more, is adulterated. Why do you pretend to know anything about agriculture and energy? Why do you use the Internet? Isn’t it regulated? How bout your computer parts — why are you wasting the energy when this industry is so heavily regulated? Like I said, you pick and choose too, don’t you?

You keep right on shilling for adulterated gasoline and the rest of us will continue to see you for what you are, a 'republican' that thinks it is proper for the government to distort markets to their hearts content, as long as the right palms get greased. Your version of socialism where the government can, at its whim, tell us what we must buy and sell is an anathema to those of us who prefer freedom to the government's control of the means and methods of production.

You're absolutely right that I consider myself to have a more 'libertarian' outlook, than the soft form of socialism pushed by the Republican party, or the harder version championed by the delusional Democrats.

I find myself in good company:

"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is." - Ronald Reagan.

Yeah right. That’s why libertarians have been called liberfarians as they favor the homosexualists and why they have also favored open borders to bring in the 3rd worlders. They also favor ad nauseum not helping foreign nations attacked by tyrants; a thousand times I have heard this, we libertarians need to stay out. With that attitude tyrants would never have to fear a Good Samaritan might come along and help the defenseless. Odd that you would attack republicans then quote Ronald Reagan. Tell us what, name one thing, the libertarians have ever accomplished? Oh, I forgot they had a Governor in New Mexico, the #1 welfare recipient state.

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