***** Perry: “I haven’t backed off anything in my book” If ethanol was such a great fuel, let the market decide its value.
Too many Iowa farmers bought into this subsidy drug and are now hooked.
Look guys, taking in government money to produce something people don’t want to pay for is just stealing from your neighbors. Just like creeping into their house at night and lifting bucks out of that wallet on the dresser.
Only difference is you have the force of government behind your stealing.
You’re still creeping.
Corn belongs on my dinner plate, not my gas tank.
Yea, right. We'll give up our subsidies and keep our regular tax deductions offered to all corporations as long as they take away those tax deductions from the oil companies that are there for every business, no matter the industry.
Purposely worded to make it sound they will give up the same as what is taken away from the oil companies. They are setting up the unfair advantage they already have against oil.
If the damned Iowa caucuses were later in the year, we probably could have gotten rid of this outrage.
I’ll take Gov. Palin’s position: let’s take away special subsidies for all energy providers.
Damn Straight!
Go back to MTBE and return to food for food and fuel for fuel.
M-E-R-C-K
“Iowa corn farmers support the federal rule which requires an increasing volume of ethanol be produced through 2015. Perry told reporters tonight that he supports “all of the sources of energy” that are out there, including so-called biofuels like ethanol, but he’s against the federal government requiring a certain amount of ethanol be produced each year.
“We don’t need to have government picking winners and losers in this business,” Perry said during a news conference in Des Moines. “Let the folks get out there with the regulations off their back. I have a good idea that the farmers in Iowa can compete with anybody in the world.” “
Shades of Tim Pawlenty
Pawlenty: Phase out ethanol subsidies
http://gop12.thehill.com/2011/05/pawlenty-phase-out-ethanol-subsidies.html
“.remove the federal regulations that are stifling innovation and job creation...”
AMEN! I agree!
That’s a gutsy thing to say in Iowa. It could cost him any chance of winning the Iowa caucuses. It’s the right thing, of course, and every tea party candidate should go to Iowa and repeat the same thing.
This puts Perry on the right side of at least two gigantic issues including AGW which to me is almost a litmus test.
I am with Perry. The ethanol is why the food costs are up so sharply.