Posted on 12/01/2015 11:19:30 AM PST by Isara
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| Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks to a wall-to-wall audience at a town hall meeting Monday at Tanglewood Hills Pavilion in Bettendorf. (Louis Brems, QUAD-CITY TIMES) |
Hours after the Obama administration on Monday announced plans to boost the amount of corn-based ethanol in the U.S. gasoline supply, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz denounced the move during a stop in eastern Iowa.
"God has blessed America with abundant natural resources and we ought to be producing everything ... but it shouldn't be Washington picking winners and losers," Cruz told reporters following a town hall stop in Bettendorf.
In the past, Cruz has classified the government's longtime support for ethanol as "corporate welfare" and a threat to free markets.
"I would love to see ethanol expand its market share ... and removing government barriers is critical to doing that," he added.
The Texas senator made two stops in eastern Iowa on Monday.
During both, Cruz touted his plan to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.
"We need to repeal every word of Obamacare," he told a jam-packed room of Scott County voters at Tanglewood Hills Pavilion in Bettendorf.
Earlier in the day, Cruz told a crowd at packaging plant in Clinton that some of his rivals won't touch the health care law, even though GOP criticism of the law has been a staple in this year's race for the party's nomination.
Cruz didn't identify any of his opponents, but said, "There is a real divide in this Republican primary about who actually is willing to take on Obamacare."
The health care law has been a popular target of Republican candidates, but Cruz gained notice with a 2013 filibuster in which he sought to take down the law.
Steve McFarland of Clinton, who said he plans to caucus for Cruz, mentioned the filibuster while explaining what drew his support. And he praised Cruz's willingness to take on Republican congressional leaders.
"He's a statesman. He's not a politician," McFarland said.
Pretty “GUTTSY” in Iowa . I sure respect that.
Idiots like Jeb Bush just follow the old political formulas i.e.) just promise the rubes in Iowa more ethanol and you’ll get their support.
Cruz is simply speaking reasoned truth, and smart people will grasp it.
In fact, most Iowans don’t care about ethanol. Those in farming know the value of their land and their labor, and don’t expect corporate subsidies to the likes of ADM will have any effect on them in the end.
There are staving children in Africa!
but it shouldn’t be Washington picking winners and losers
BTTT
I am probably the last guy on the planet to discover this, but the ethanol destroys carburetors in all your small gasoline engines:snowblowers, lawnmowers, etc.
Pretty “GUTTSY” in Iowa . I sure respect that.
Maybe that’s why the faces in the above pic look none too happy.
Was this a private event?
Also indicating he feels pretty good about Iowa.
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Many of ethanol’s biggest proponents are strongly endorsing Cruz.
Politics are a special kind of calculus.
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Mid-West faces. Nobody should have actual emotions.
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A draftsman that used to work for me before he retired owns about ten square miles of Ag land in Iowa, and he is very big on Cruz.
Honesty is not always a detriment at the polls.
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We wildly overstate the love of subsidies that only a few really benefit from. When Ted Cruz spoke to the Iowa Ag summit about this back in the spring it was well received because it came with a promise to ease taxation and regulation so farmers can find their own path to prosperity without the ever present threat of government cutting the subsidies.
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The ethanol in gasoline will destroy the fuel system in a small engine like a chainsaw, or generator in a month if left with fuel in it.
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>> “Mid-West faces. Nobody should have actual emotions.” <<
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Sounds like my paternal grand mother. She was born and raised in Poplar Bluff.
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Damn ethanol has cost me $70-$100 every couple years on all my “gas” powered yard tools. I forget to drain the tanks at the end of the season and, come spring, they won’t start or start and not make any power. I now buy pure canned gasoline at the yard tool store for $28/gallon! But that sure beats replacing carburetors every year. Here in CA you simply cannot find a station selling plain gasoline without ethanol in it. I haven’t tried the local airports or marinas yet.
The Press and their cameras were there to cover. Looks like a crowd of about 125ish.
Go to pure-gas.org and click on CA.
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