Cruz is right on this one, and I could vote for either Trump or Cruz. They have their respective strengths and weaknesses, but both are a far sight better than any RINOs or Dem. We need to start pointing our guns at the real enemies.
The issue is national security. A self sufficient USA needs X gallons of liquid fuel per year produced within our borders by us. Until we have that we are vulnerable to the hatred of nations that have us over a “barrel”.
There is no problem with ethanol that cannot be solved and most already are.
Sorry, but ethanol subsidies are one of the worst boondoggles out there.
I agree it's among the worst and the real reason it exists is because they can wrap it in "energy independence" and "clean energy" garb. This county directly subsidized many crops including corn for a long, long time.
In order to declare victory against such obvious direct subsidies, many of the same people yelling about Ethanol now got behind the Ethanol subsidy as a way to keep paying subsidies to corn farming without having to fight over open, direct subsidies for corn.
You can bet your bottom dollar that one of two things is on the agenda of those who are yelling about ethanol. Either 1) much more money from lobbyists for big oil that now finds itself with far more product than they ever expected to expected to have and would like 100% pure petroleum going in your tank again or, 2) some other boondogle that hides subsidies for both oil and corn in a new disguise.
If this country was really interested in energy independence we'd be promoting the use of diesel and coal instead of declaring war on both.