Texas Senators take different approach to the ethanol mess
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I would like to see the mandate disappear and let ethanol and other biofuels compete in the marketplace. If that happened they would have some incentive to create a product that doesn't screws up small engines and is less efficient for larger engines on vehicles.
The current policy also forces refineries to buy crap they do not need instead of spending that money on converting their facilities to use US light crude from shale wells which would actually reduce dependency on imported oil which was the stated intent of the mandate, to begin with.
I would urge both Texas Senators to consider the impact of this bad mandate on consumers. They are being hurt as much as the refineries by the mandate and there are more of us than there are farmers or refineries.
After years of rancor over ethanol, Cruz, Cornyn go head to head on reformCornyn is taking a softer approach with the Agribusiness rent seekers. I am not connected to either the refineries or the Big Corn. I am a consumer who despises what ethanol does to my equipment. Unfortunately, no consumers are brought into the debate over the mandates that are enriching some and providing no benefit to consumers.
I would like to see the mandate disappear and let ethanol and other biofuels compete in the marketplace. If that happened they would have some incentive to create a product that doesn't screws up small engines and is less efficient for larger engines on vehicles.
The current policy also forces refineries to buy crap they do not need instead of spending that money on converting their facilities to use US light crude from shale wells which would actually reduce dependency on imported oil which was the stated intent of the mandate, to begin with.
I would urge both Texas Senators to consider the impact of this bad mandate on consumers. They are being hurt as much as the refineries by the mandate and there are more of us than there are farmers or refineries.
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