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Oh... C'mon dude.
We can't go three posts? I personally haven't mentioned big oil yet... but I am now.
Even on the consumer level, you can see how fucked up they are. As soon as they see the price of crude jump even the slightest bit, they tack on to our price/gallon. When it drops.... they drag their feet until they have to drop it.
That's just at the pump and at the consumer level. If you are so infatuated with "Big Money" to the point that you are willing to ignore even that, you are a walking rock(as in intelligence).
The claim is that "big oil" is the main party lobbying for Ethanol. That's pure bullshit. Oil companies do not benefit from Ethanol.
Only Gubmint benefits from it by edict...
The claim is that "big oil" is the main party lobbying for Ethanol. That's pure bullshit. Oil companies do not benefit from Ethanol.
Only Gubmint benefits from it by edict...
Corn farmers and big Agra-business companies like ADM are the prime beneficiaries, not oil companies. But libtards hate oil companies, so they are the designated demons behind every conspiracy against the average boob in the street.
Today the government pays refiners 45 cents a gallon through a tax credit to refine corn-based ethanol. An additional 54 cents a gallon tarirff blocks imports of less expensive and more energy efficient sugar-based ethanol from Brazil. Corn-based ethanol is mandated by federal law benefitting the farm belt.
Big oil, big agra benefit and we the people lose. For details on this bill, which is supported by members of both parties, and opposed by those who represent special interests, see the source below.
Feinstein, GOP senator fight subsidies for ethanol
Simple first-step to a solution:
Don't make Iowa one of the first caucus states in presidential elections.
Good luck with that.
Simple first-step to a solution:
Don't make Iowa one of the first caucus states in presidential elections.
Good luck with that.
I know, unlikely.
But it would be nice. And we could actually have politicians who aren't afraid of an honest discussion on the pros/cons of ethanol.
It's unfortunate The T and bripat 9643 choose to post, they rarely if ever contribute anything of substance to a thread.
End corporate welfare!
End corporate welfare!
Only if we end welfare welfare at the same time.
Betcha a dollar to a dog turd that the "End corporate welfare!" windbags will never go for the deal.
End corporate welfare!
End corporate welfare!
Only if we end welfare welfare at the same time.
Betcha a dollar to a dog turd that the "End corporate welfare!" windbags will never go for the deal.
Remember that ethanol was an idea of liberals to "wean us off foreign oil". Like most liberal ideas, it sucks and is counter-productive. Now they want to get rid of it, having inflicted billions of dollars of cost on the American people.
Next time libs offer a "solution" reach for your wallet.
End corporate welfare!
Only if we end welfare welfare at the same time.
Betcha a dollar to a dog turd that the "End corporate welfare!" windbags will never go for the deal.
Diane Feinstein and the Tea Party are absolutely correct. End the ethanol subsidy.
And if this doesn't demonstrate what an ideologically rigid douchebag Grosver Nordquist is, I don't know what will. I don't know why I am surprised that the head of The Club for Deficits is against this but I am.
Who said they did, retard?Big oil doesn't get most of the money that comes from those subsidies.
Won't happen. Big Oil wants Corn to be the only Ethanol in town. It allows people to have the illusion of freedom and alternative energy sources without constituting a real threat to the existing system.
Diane Feinstein and the Tea Party are absolutely correct. End the ethanol subsidy.
And if this doesn't demonstrate what an ideologically rigid douchebag Grosver Nordquist is, I don't know what will. I don't know why I am surprised that the head of The Club for Deficits is against this but I am.
Grover Norquist wants to continue Ethanol Subsidies?
I don't think so.
Seems like red states are the ones producing sugar in the USA.End corporate welfare!
Only if we end welfare welfare at the same time.
Betcha a dollar to a dog turd that the "End corporate welfare!" windbags will never go for the deal.
Even if we only end corporate welfare, that's OK with me. However, I'll bet the libtards will be the first ones to whine when they put an end to Ethanol subsidies, tariffs on imported sugar and subsidies for "green energy."
