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re: Ethanol is welfare for farmers and a way for both parties to buy votes
Posted on 10/9/18 at 6:59 pm to weagle99
Posted on 10/9/18 at 6:59 pm to weagle99
I saw this first hand at a fueling station.100% gasoline, after being pumped into tanks from a barge, is then loaded into the tanker trucks along with the ethanol. I asked one of the employees rhetorically mind you, why in the frick am I paying at least 50 cents more per gallon for non-ethanol gasoline to run in my boat and power equipment. He just shrugged his shoulders and said you know why. It’s crazy.
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Posted on 10/9/18 at 7:30 pm to griswold
How about welfare for none of them???
Posted on 10/9/18 at 7:31 pm to weagle99
True.
frick it, still true.
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by weagle99
frick it, still true.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 7:46 pm to weagle99
I love how y'all call every honest dollar farmers get "welfare"
farmers work like 80 hours a week
farmers work like 80 hours a week
Posted on 10/9/18 at 7:47 pm to weagle99
Alcohol belongs in your stomach not in your car!
Posted on 10/9/18 at 7:48 pm to Loserman
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Alcohol belongs in your stomach not in your car!
How am I supposed to get it in my stomach while I'm on the interstate?
Posted on 10/9/18 at 8:13 pm to Ace Midnight
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frick it, still true.
What did I do to you?
Posted on 10/9/18 at 8:21 pm to weagle99
Welfare. Subsidies. Kick backs. Big business acting like big business. Or politicians acting like politicians it's all the same.
Winners and losers don't ever change.
Winners and losers don't ever change.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 8:34 pm to I B Freeman
I tend to be more concerned about the plight of folks that are allowing me to put food on my table without growing it myself.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 8:37 pm to weagle99
Ethanol IS significantly cheaper
Posted on 10/9/18 at 8:43 pm to griswold
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Better than welfare for solar panels, windmills and electric cars. Not to mention illegals and terrorists.
There is the simple minded whataboutism we have been waiting for.
Ethanol only made sense when we were producing far less oil in the USA and needs all subsidies cut, in fact I think they expired last year and have not been renewed but welcome a correction on that point.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 8:44 pm to HempHead
quote:This.
I am 95% convinced it exists because Iowa is the first stop in the Presidential nomination races.
Some red state needs to hold their caucus before Iowa and take the wind out of their sails.
frick those Iowa corn farmers and their ethanol.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 8:47 pm to weagle99
Agreed. Ethenol is a scam on the taxpayers that is environmentally dangerous, mechanically destructive, and economically inefficient. The Renewable Fuel Standard needs to be done away with along with all ag subsidies.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 9:31 pm to kingbob
End the mandated use of ethanol AND the subsidized crop insurance.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 10:14 pm to Blob Fish
[quote]Ethanol IS significantly cheaper
No shite. Please read my earlier post. The question is why?? Ethanol is an additive. Why is it cheaper to purchase fuel plus an additve vs pure fuel.
No shite. Please read my earlier post. The question is why?? Ethanol is an additive. Why is it cheaper to purchase fuel plus an additve vs pure fuel.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 10:51 pm to LSURussian
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One Iowa poster on here gets very defensive whenever ethanol subsidies are mentioned....
Well there’s no telling how much of Iowa's economy is tied to corn farming. Everybody shits on the farmer when this stuff happens, but most of the “welfare” is going in one hand and out the other. It’s just the farmer’s hand.
It would be ignorant to say that all of that money is just passing through, but a lot of it is. Every seed, chemical, unit of fertilizer, tractor, planter, combine, acre of land, etc. just became more valuable.
It’s all one big cycle, and you have to roll your eyes at both the farmer who cries saying he can’t make any money and the guy who says the farmer is becoming a millionaire off the government. They’re both a little obtuse.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 10:53 pm to I B Freeman
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End the mandated use of ethanol AND the subsidized crop insurance.
preach
Posted on 10/9/18 at 10:55 pm to prostyleoffensetime
E85 is good stuff its like poor man's race fuel.
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