10-12-2018, 03:41 PM
(10-12-2018, 02:33 PM)Benton Wrote: It's possible.
I was just talking to Rep. Comer about Trump's push to expand ethanol production. The nutshell is Bush-era folks passed regulations that allowed for ethanol production and required blending to offset unstable gas prices.... but prohibited it during the summer (when demand for gasoline is the highest) so that oil companies would still be able to gouge consumers.
Trump expanded e15 production in the last couple weeks, which doesn't mean a ton outside of helping to stabilize gas prices a little. It did, however, take away from the oil industry, which is one of the biggest lobbying groups.
Granted, they got a boost with the piece of crap that is New NAFTA, so maybe it was just a tradeoff.
E15 is just government subsidies (welfare) for corporate farming.
Politicians often try to act like they are helping "the little man" when they support farmers, but today's "farmers" are all just more large corporations.
