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The green cloak of Big Ethanol is coming off

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Designated2

Radical farm state idea — cropland for food, gasoline for cars Big Ethanol has wrapped itself in a cloak of environmentalism for decades, winning government mandates for the marketing and use of its product — they are finally being defrocked, … Continue reading →

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Why shuck my corn, the Obama dominated EPA officially says ethanol mandates hurt

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Designated2

the environment in particular (not to mention everyone’s’ pocketbook except the usual suspects). Nobody knows the struggle we’ve seen It seems sometimes that we have been but a voice in a pretty lonely corner in the contoured cultivated non-wilderness of … Continue reading →

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TWO GENERATIONS OF ETHANOL SUBSIDIES ARE ENOUGH

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Designated2

Cruz vs Grassley feud is bigger than Northey Cruz et al say they are willing to compromise, are Grassley et al? We suppose corn-chauvinism is to be expected as is petro-chauvinism from farm and oil state Senators respectively.  But call … Continue reading →

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TWO GENERATIONS OF ETHANOL SUBSIDIES ARE ENOUGH

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Designated2

Cruz vs Grassley feud is bigger than Northey We suppose corn chauvinism is to be expected as is petro chauvinism from farm and oil state Senators respectively.  But call the practitioners fair minded or conservative poseurs,  consistent or inconsistent, the … Continue reading →

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Lawless EPA regarding ethanol — we will tell you what we want to, when we decide to

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Designated2

We do not expect much to come from our Republican Congress regarding this report of an Obama agency thumbing its nose at the law. You can read the story here. The link is to virtually the same article at the … Continue reading →

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Steve King primary challenge — reeks of Branstad ethanol breath

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Designated2

Hell hath no fury like corporate welfare queens scorned Challenger gaffs the hand that feeds him News reports verify rumors and implications over the last couple of months that Iowa’s Fourth District Congressman Steve King will have a primary challenger.  … Continue reading →

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Take this Branstads — from someone who knows more about ethanol than you do

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Designated2

We were going to say you are stupid . . . greedy . . . and your mother dresses you funny . . . but we decided against it. As Rich Lowry writing at the publication Freedom’s Back in an … Continue reading →

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Anti-ethanol mandate ads airing – Results of new poll questions ethanol importance

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Designated2

I woke up this morning thinking it was an ethanol hallucination, and no it was not from a bender the night before Wailing and gnashing of teeth heard coming from Branstad residence(s) An expensive local Today Show slot was filled … Continue reading →

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“Ethanol loses its few friends” — Net Right Daily/ALG

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Designated2

Ben Carson sees the light, no longer an ethanol mandater Wind energy just as bad We have posted more than a few  articles on green energy boondoggles including wind farms and corn-based ethanol production.  Both “industries” are way too long … Continue reading →

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Ethanol and Wind — Impose Blights In More Ways Than One

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Designated2

We have discussed the implications of ethanol subsidies on American workers, taxpayers and consumers.  We can’t say, excerpt or link enough about the implications for the poor worldwide. Excerpts from a very compelling article by  Peter Suderman writing at Reason … Continue reading →

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