Trump calls for higher ethanol mandate

[MCJ62]

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/266339-trump-calls-for-higher-ethanol-mandate

Isn't he supposed to be against special interest cronyism? I'm utterly dumbfounded by how brazenly unauthentic he is, and how his loyal band of followers fail to realize it.

 

[Dr.3D]

Sounds like he wants the price of chicken and beef to go up.

 

[sparebulb]

There goes the quaint notion that Trump can take a look at a situation with a free market, logical, and fiscally conservative point of view.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Speaking at an event hosted by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, Trump, a real estate mogul and the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ought to follow the ethanol volumes Congress set in 2007.

“The EPA should ensure that biofuel ... blend levels match the statutory level set by Congress under the [renewable fuel standard],” Trump said.

The mandate is popular in Iowa, which hosts the nation's first caucuses.

In setting the ethanol blending mandate for 2016 last year, the EPA used a provision in the law that allows it to waive the specific volumes Congress set out, citing lower than expected gasoline demand, among other factors.

Interesting:

The mandate that the EPA set on Monday calls for mixing 18.11 billion gallons of biofuels into the nation’s fuel market next year. That figure, which includes corn ethanol, biodiesel and next-generation "cellulosic" ethanol, is well below the 22.3 billion gallons required under a 2007 law.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/...cales-back-ethanol-mandate-in-gasoline-216270

So the damn fools set a fixed, specific number of gallons of biofuel that must be used with no respect to supply and demand, total cost, effectiveness, cascading effects or unintended consequences?

Just another example that central planning never works. That would make Trump a (pandering) fool for supporting it.

 

[CPUd]

He is trolling Cruz for going against ethanol subsidies in Iowa.

 

[RJB]

They all talk like this in Iowa. Wait 'til he gets to New York and calls for a masturbation station on every corner.

 

[puppetmaster]

He is trolling Cruz for going against ethanol subsidies in Iowa.

yep. Gotta sell your gubment corn

 

[Dr.3D]

He just wants to do well in the corn belt.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

This is getting a lot of attention on my fedbook. Good job OP +rep

 

[GunnyFreedom]

They all talk like this in Iowa. Wait 'til he gets to New York and calls for a masturbation station on every corner.

Neither Rand Paul nor Ron Paul talked like this in Iowa. I specifically remember Ron actively opposing corn subsidies in Iowa prior to the caucuses in 2012.

 

[RJB]

Neither Rand Paul nor Ron Paul talked like this in Iowa. I specifically remember Ron actively opposing corn subsidies in Iowa prior to the caucuses in 2012.

Of course. That's why I like the Pauls.

 

[FindLiberty]

They all talk like this in Iowa. Wait 'til he gets to New York and calls for a masturbation station on every corner.

I vote NO on one (some corn in every gas tank) and YES on two

 

[Zippyjuan]

He just wants to do well in the corn belt.

Once again giving the people what he thinks they want to hear.

 

[Kotin]

What an authoritarian pandering piece of slime

 

[CPUd]

Neither Rand Paul nor Ron Paul talked like this in Iowa. I specifically remember Ron actively opposing corn subsidies in Iowa prior to the caucuses in 2012.

This is one of those issues the Pauls can get away with in Iowa, but someone like Cruz tries it and he will get shit all over.

Similar to how Trump can get away with being a jackass when other candidates can not.

 

[Tinnuhana]

...and hemp is so much better a biofuel than corn.