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Here’s How Anti-Ethanol Cruz Beat Trump In Corn Country
The Daily Caller ^ | 02/01/2016 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 02/02/2016 8:47:21 AM PST by justlittleoleme

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To: ChiefJayStrongbow
If you want to buy gas without ethanol for long term storage in seldom used equipment (such as a generator), it costs about 20 dollars per gallon.

Wow, where are buying your ethanol-free gas? I loathe ethanol, but a nearby station sells ethanol-free gas in regular, mid-grade, and premium grade for about .30 to .40 cents per gallon above the 10% garbage.

21 posted on 02/02/2016 9:17:26 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Beagle8U

Some of us (me) would still have it due to the EPA requirement for reformulated gasoline in select areas.


22 posted on 02/02/2016 9:17:30 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: heights

LOL


23 posted on 02/02/2016 9:18:03 AM PST by justlittleoleme (Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.)
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To: thackney

Well, I hate the stuff.


24 posted on 02/02/2016 9:20:11 AM PST by Beagle8U (Don't settle for Bill de Blasio's NYC 'values'.)
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To: Obadiah

For those of us in an EPA RFG area, the only choices for ethanol-free fuel are basically:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/TruFuel-4-Cycle-Ethanol-Free-Fuel-6-Pack-6527238/203572162


25 posted on 02/02/2016 9:23:23 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: justlittleoleme

Didn’t see anyone interviewing that old sourpuss Gov. Branstedt, after his command that Iowans should not vote for Cruz was not obeyed. Hope his son, the ethanol lobbyist, doesn’t lose his well-paid job


26 posted on 02/02/2016 9:29:00 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: justlittleoleme

Most Iowans who have brains, want to end all economy killing subsidies like; farm subsidies, medicare, war on poverty, corporate bailouts, green energy, and all the other insane subsidies that bloat government and incentivize poor business practice...


27 posted on 02/02/2016 9:31:21 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: thackney
reformulated gasoline in select areas.

SoCal is paradise for carb rebuilders.

28 posted on 02/02/2016 9:32:45 AM PST by norton
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To: thackney

Whoa, never knew they sold it like that. Crazy.


29 posted on 02/02/2016 9:34:52 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

Plus worse fuel mileage.
I took a 4000+ motorcycle trip last summer and averaged 41mpg. However, I filled the tank on three occasions with ethanol free gasoline. All three tanks gave me in excess of 45mph. One up to 47.
yeah, I hate ethanol.

By the way, I do not know about where you are, but in new Mexico and Mississippi where found the ethanol free petrol, the price was about the same as most midrange (89 octane).


30 posted on 02/02/2016 9:40:31 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Ted Cruz has the smarts of a principled conservative, the courage of a principled conservative, and the off-the-charts work ethic of a principled conservative!

If having your campaign staff at Caucuses lie about Donald Trump's positions, and telling people Carson was dropping out shows conservative principles, then I want no part of conservative principles.

Ted Cruz is as phony as they come.I regret that I thought he was the real deal when I voted for him in the primary & general here in TX.

31 posted on 02/02/2016 9:43:04 AM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: thackney

$34.99 for six quarts of pure gas! That’s insane.

I despise ethanol gas. It corroded the carb in my Honda generator in just three months, bad enough that it had to be replaced.

Anything the government controls turns to crap. Fuel, healthcare, etc.


32 posted on 02/02/2016 9:43:23 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic

If you are only using it for a postage stamp sized yard, it may be cheaper than the engine/carb rebuilds.


33 posted on 02/02/2016 9:45:25 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: justlittleoleme; Cincinatus' Wife; campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy; Impy; Reagan Disciple
RE:”Trump also jumped on Cruz for his opposition to ethanol, warning Iowans Cruz would “destroy” the industry if he wins Monday night's caucus.
“He will destroy your ethanol business 100%,” Trump said Monday.“And look, I'm not really blaming him because he's financed by oil people. The oil people don't want ethanol, it's very simple.”
“Your ethanol business if Ted Cruz gets in will be wiped out within six months to a year. It's gonna be gone,” Trump warned.”

Trump says he is not blaming Cruz, whatta guy.

Do Republicans in the rest of the states, 49 of them, want to be forced to buy ethanol in their gas just to get Trump some voting support in Iowa?

34 posted on 02/02/2016 9:45:47 AM PST by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait')
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To: sickoflibs; justlittleoleme; Cincinatus' Wife; campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy; Impy
Big oil, big pharma, big insurance.........Chuck Schumer white courtesy phone.

The “Conservative” has no clothes.

35 posted on 02/02/2016 9:55:50 AM PST by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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To: heights

Are you implying that cruz works for Goldman Sachs? or that he is owned by them? He supports their business practices through corruption? What are you saying. The only connection between Cruz and those banks is his wife worked as a Account Manager there, and they took out loans on their assets to pay his Senate campaign.

Let me ask you are you in with the big banks? Do you have an account there? Any loans? stock? any connection at all? If so by what I think your argument is you yourself are in the control of the big banks.

If the explanation is given, and is simple doesn’t mean that there has to be a secret motive or plan behind it. Sometimes the simplest answers are correct.


36 posted on 02/02/2016 10:26:12 AM PST by PA-LU Student (https://www.tedcruz.org/l/ducking-donald/)
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To: BfloGuy

The rest of the state’s citizens suffer from the same low-mileage, engine damages
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In Iowa , Illinois and other corn producing states straight “no-ethanol” gasoline is usually sold alongside ethanol blends at a reasonable price differential , usually 10 to 15 cents more... they know it’s bad.


37 posted on 02/02/2016 10:37:19 AM PST by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: thackney

“Subsidies are the spending of Tax Dollars.

It is a massive benefit to those companies, but it is not a subsidy.”

http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/laws/ETH/US


38 posted on 02/02/2016 11:33:21 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg

herbaceous feedstocks

Biomass Research and Development Initiative

Advanced Biofuel

That is not for corn. They are trying to develop an ethanol that is made from cocellulosic material like switchgrass, etc.


39 posted on 02/02/2016 11:38:21 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

To me, a tax credit is essentially equivalent to a subsidy and the distinction between the two is mostly pedantic, having little economic content.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2014/03/11/obamas-2015-budget-backs-costly-corn-ethanol-subsidies


40 posted on 02/02/2016 11:44:16 AM PST by riverdawg
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