Posted on 10/24/2015 6:51:14 AM PDT by jimbo123
Newly minted Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told an Iowa audience on Tuesday that he would use the savings from ending oil industry subsidies to pay for new ethanol blending stations.
Carson, in his first speech in the state as a candidate, was asked by a voter about the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal mandate that fuel refiners blend a certain volume of ethanol and biodiesel into their gasoline and diesel supplies. "I don't particularly like the idea of government subsidies for anything because it interferes with the natural free market," Carson said, according to The Des Moines Register.
“Therefore, I would probably be in favor of taking that $4 billion a year we spend on oil subsidies and using that in new fueling stations" for 30 percent ethanol blends, he added.
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Just how is this guy any damn different than the clowns we already have ?
Next. Carson is now toast - well to me anyway.
It'll keep corn and soy prices up.
This right here ought to be enough to not vote for this man, even without his equivocating on 2nd Amendment rights and on amnesty. It’s pandering to big corn and Iowa votes is what it is. Ethanol destroys parts of systems in which it is used, let alone not delivering the energy equivalent of gasoline.
Ben Carson may be a brain surgeon, but he doesn’t know squat about energy.
We need to end ALL ethanol subsidies.
Speaking personally... Ethanol as it’s used in Gasoline-Ethanol blends is a bad thing for engines big and small. And as such it should be the choice of the consumer on which they would use, Gasohol or straight gasoline.
Sort of like cigarettes, cigars and e-cigs.
But no... the government in all of it’s ‘nannyness’ just has to get involved.
Amnesty pimp and ethanol pimp.
Yep. Sell out for a vote. I will absolutely rule him out because of this.
Disgusting pandering.
I so hope Trump takes him down.
THE FARMERS?
You mean Archer Daniels Midland and the other large ethanol leeches.
30% ethanol won’t even power a lawnmower
Just how is this guy any damn different than the clowns we already have ?
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Not a dime’s worth of difference.
I will rule him out because of this. He is clearly selling out.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon!
All we need to know now is where he sill STUMP next to find out what he is FOR or Against.
No Carson....not now, not ever.
Embarrassing pandering. Also, there are no oil subsidies.
Does this idiot know what ethanol does to combustion engines? Does he know what it does to fuel mileage? I guess he has now revealed his true character. When in one audience, cater to them. When in a different audience, cater to them. Screw ethics, standards and moral convictions in order to get a few extra votes.
what part of “ “I don’t particularly like the idea of government subsidies for anything because it interferes with the natural free market,” Carson said” don’t you understand?
“30% ethanol won’t even power a lawnmower”
Oh, it will. For a very short time.
Even 15% ethanol will destroy 2 cycle and 4 stroke powered engines. Guess you can use a machete to trim those weeds....
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