Posted on 01/04/2016 8:27:35 PM PST by Isara
It’s the ethanol, Sherlock.
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For if he wins Iowa, he will have defeated the ethanol lobby. And beating Big Corn on its home turf is what can propel him to a win in New Hampshire.
People in New Hampshire hate ethanol. Ethanol is corrosive, it destroys engines. If ethanol-laced gasoline is more than a couple months old, it can't be used in high performance small engines. It is hydroscopic, attracting water, another problem with performance.
A lot of guys have a personal problem with ethanol. Go to any tavern in New Hampshire and you'll hear an earful. There's nothing worse than getting all rigged out with your chain saw, ready to rip, and your saw won't start. Your ports and jets have been clogged by residue released by the ethanol in your fuel, a solvent. So you haul your saw down to the mechanic, cursing ethanol the whole way.
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Ethanol is different than almost any other government boondoggle, in that everyday Americans have to put up with it on a daily basis. Some government handouts, such as those to Rubio's favorite, Big Sugar, are easy to ignore. You pay an extra nickel when you buy...-- big deal. But a whole lot of people, working class people, actually hate ethanol, in ways that coastal elites don't understand.
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Because it's more, of course, than just ethanol. It's craven politicians seeking the White House, in the first state they compete in, whoring for the votes of a special interest that the rest of the country is forced to put up with. It's corporate welfare in general. It's the poster child of the Washington cabal, which is so intensely despised. It's what's wrong with the Republican Party, and the country.
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But if Cruz wins those caucuses it's different story. He will not have been cowed by the ethanol lobby. He will have defied Big Corn and its entrenched political machine....
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Well, Cruz is my first choice, but I think “Fritz” was smoking something when he wrote that piece of conjecture.
That was real? It’s officially silly season......
Have you received your Ted Cruz knee pads yet?
I’m interested in who will win the Republican nomination. But I am more interested in who can beat the Democrats in the general election.
Is Cruz another Reagan? Or is he another Goldwater?
Eight years of Trump/Cruz followed by eight years of Cruz/Somebody works for me.
He is the ONLY one kicking the ethanol lobby in the teeth
Oh Yeah
Name the Democrats we must beat?
Hillary? That woman will pass out by March.
Uncle Joe and Liawatha will swoop in to save the day.
Cruz peaked nationally around christmas and has been in a free fall ever since. Rubio is moving up. Keep an eye on the rube!
I like Cruz too. Not sure that the small-engine-voter-block will carry him to 100% though! BTW - that isn’t why Cruz is “anti-ethanol”. Heck - he even has said he is for ethanol is it works in the free market! He’s just not for the government mandating it and subsidizing it.
We ALL know ethanol is a scam and it effs us
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More at Conservative Review: https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-presidential-candidates
And, of course, he is for Renewable Fuel Standard (ethanol mandate), so governement can pick winners and losers.
Trump's Record on Free-market Issue: (from the Conservative Review)
Trump has a terrible record on free market issues. The only bright spot is the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing, but this glimmer is countermanded by his repeated support for bailing out Wall Street and the auto industry, and increased stimulus spending. Of particular concern is Trump's belief that the government can use eminent domain powers to seize private property in the name of private economic development. This comes as no surprise, given his support for using eminent domain to profit his own company.
Trump supported the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of London, allowing public authorities to seize private land for economic development by private investors; Trump said, “I happen to agree with [the decision] 100 percent.” (National Review) This is no surprise given Trump’s attempt to use eminent domain in his own line of work. (Institute for Justice)
Trump supported President Obama’s 2009 stimulus, saying: “The word stimulus is probably not used in its fullest…you know, certain of the things that were given weren't really stimulus. They were pork, as we call it, or they were gifts to certain people. But overall, I think he's [President Obama] doing very well. You do need stimulus and you do have to keep the banks alive.” (CNN)
Trump supported TARP, saying, "You had to do something to shore up the banks, because ... you would have had a run on every bank." (CNN)
Trump supported the 2008 auto bailout, saying, “I think the government should stand behind them 100 percent. You cannot lose the auto companies. They’re great. They make wonderful products.” He also said that the federal government could “easily save the companies.” (Daily Caller)
Trump criticized the Federal Reserve’s intervention in the debt market, saying quantitative easing creates “phony numbers” that mislead the marketplace and “will not ultimately benefit the economy. The dollar will go down in value and inflation will start rearing its ugly head.” (CNBC)
Donald Trump has a history of using eminent domain to complete business deals. Multiple times Trump has supported the use of government agencies to take possession of homes and businesses for use in his private business plans. Eminent domain seizures are reserved only for public use of property rather than abuse by the government taking property from one individual and giving to another. (Washington Post)
Donald Trump has sought and received crony capitalist tax breaks for his commercial properties in New York. These tax breaks, and even an abatement, force the property taxes of other property owners to rise at the expense of the connected. Special treatment for one business or industry over another with the tax code conflicts with free market principles. (National Review)
In 2009, Trump supported Barack Obama's call for limits on the pay of executives. (CNN)
It's really all the Dems have left.
OK. I've been to my share of taverns in New Hamsphire and the subject of ethanol never came up once. Not in any other state either.
I heard Trump tell those in Iowa, “I am for Ethanol.” Then, he said, “Cruz is not one of us. He likes oil.” Trump will tell anyone anything on any day if it helps him win. He is not to be trusted as he has no core - he is a salesman of the highest order - would be great, just great, wonderfully great, as a used car salesman.
Will Hussein let any Republican win in November? He doesn’t have to.
The funny part is that Hillary will take all the money.
Libtards are so nutty.
In 2011 the VEETC ethanol subsidy was shut down. The ethanol industry now thrives without the help of taxpayer subsidies. The same is not true of the gas, coal and oil industries, which grabbed an estimated $30 billion in subsidies, 2014.
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