Ted Cruz Vs The Iowans. The Battle Continues (Fight over Ethanol Mandates)

Hotair ^ | 11/16/2017 | Jazz Shaw

[Psalm 144]

Will be interesting to see if this has any bearing when he runs for POTUS again.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Boomer]

Ethanol is a lie. It has only purpose; making money for those who grow corn. That’s it. No benefit to the environment; it fact it hurts the environment once everything is factored in. Big lie.

[Rusty0604]

And it’s not good for cars.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ethanol subsidies are crony governmentalism at its worst. If this boondoggle cannot be cut from the budget, wasteful spending will destroy our Republic.

[no-to-illegals]

Why does ethanol free gasoline cost more than the ethanol gasoline??? It costs money to put ethanol in gasoline but of course the taxpayers pay the tab. Heck taxpayers pay for congresses sexual activity then we are screwgeed with paying for ethanol .... Gee, I love being bent over as much as the next person ... (sigh)

[MrEdd]

Actually it doesn’t.
Corn would make about as much money if fed to hogs and sold as ham and bacon.

What ethanol does do is raise the price of food, generate a source of graft payments, and create a raft of paid mostly leftwing bureaucrats. I submit that those three things were the actual purpose originally.

[Fungi]

The same Joni Ernst who ran on going to Washington to “castrate” some pigs? Yeah right. The swamp changes everyone.

[iowamark]

Cruz letter:

https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/11.14.17-Sen.-Cruz-Letter-to-Governor-Reynolds.pdf

[SES1066]

And it’s not good for cars.

Expand that to gasoline engines, if you please. Here in Florida, we had a lot of people go buy generators for Hurricane Irma and then fueled them from the 'regular' pump, ie ethanol added. Come next year's hurricane season, many of these generators will be even more expensive to service / replace.

[Cuttnhorse]

And it’s not good for cars.
Expand that to gasoline engines, if you please

I love this...where I live in rural Idaho, the local BLM, and Forest Service maintenance crews buy non-ethanol gasoline for their mowers, chainsaws, etc. They freely admit that corn-based gas screws up their engines.
What a joke!!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“What ethanol does do is raise the price of food, generate a source of graft payments, and create a raft of paid mostly leftwing bureaucrats. I submit that those three things were the actual purpose originally.”

You need to add:

Taxpayers pay for subsidized corn
Drivers get worse mpg - which is a tax
Cars are damaged

[RS_Rider]

“It has only purpose; making money for those who grow corn.”

My guess is that there’s someone in between my wallet and the farmer, otherwise we would be sensible about our fuel.

[stockpirate]

Corn is a food and should be used as such, only.

[drypowder]

Well known facts: the production of 1 unit of ethanol requires more BTUs than the unit of ethanol supplies. Using corn as a source of ethanol increases the price of corn as a market commodity. The primary use of corn is for food stuffs for humans and livestock. The primary reason meat prices are now so expensive is the livestock/meat industry has to pay a much higher price for the corn as a feed. Ethanol added to gasoline raises the price of the gasoline and ethanol is damaging to most gasoline run motors. That in addition to higher meat and corn food prices, exactly who is benefiting from the ethanol as a fuel additive? For certain it is not the American consumer but it is the corporate farming industry, the petroleum industry and the politicians who take their donations. Ah, the American politician, the folks who sell their soles and reap the rewards at the expense of the rest of us.If one argues the infused gasoline cuts the environmentally harmful emissions, one needs to consider the more environmentally harmful emissions of the diesel fuel used in farming equipment and the increased use of farm chemicals that result in environmental deviation of our air, water and beneficial insect species that have been decimated such as many species of parasitic wasps and of course the American honey bee and other plant pollinators. Yep, that ethanol for fuel is a real winner. NOT!

[SoConPubbie]

Will be interesting to see if this has any bearing when he runs for POTUS again.

He's toast as far as another run at POTUS is concerned because he pulled his support from Roy Moore.

Apparently his re-election prospects were more important to him than waiting to find actual proof of bad behavior by Roy Moore.

Now he just looks like a preening, self-righteous coward.

[stockpirate]

Doesn’t it also damage gas engines?

[DIRTYSECRET]

It starts food riots in Mexico.

[hadaclueonce]

Ethanol has costs in engine damage than the sheep will ever know.

K Street working overtime to keep your rep in booze and broads to keep the funding going