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2018-05-09 Economy

Groups Urge Trump To Fully Repeal The Renewable 'Corn Gas' Fuel Standard Today

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-09 04:15|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Here's an idea - give people a choice, not a mandate.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2018-05-09 07:49|| 2018-05-09 07:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh you have a 'choice' (actually a penalty). You want the old style gas, you pay an additional $.45 - $.85 per gallon.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-09 07:55|| 2018-05-09 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not a choice if one side gets state subsidies. See - steel, et al.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2018-05-09 09:19|| 2018-05-09 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't the corn gas lead to food scarcity in Mexico and other places?

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-09 10:13|| 2018-05-09 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh you have a 'choice' (actually a penalty). You want the old style gas, you pay an additional $.45 - $.85 per gallon.

I'm too lazy to look it up now, but I'm pretty sure ethanol, etc. are subsidized, so real gas would actually cost less than the 'corn gas' the liberals in Cambridge & Brookline love to put in their Priuses.

Posted by Raj 2018-05-09 10:47|| 2018-05-09 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I remember trying to find pure gasoline a while back and learned that in most cities it is illegal for gas stations to sell it, and even if you go outside city limits, even into a different county, in the countryside the shit is virtually impossible to find at any price.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2018-05-09 11:50|| 2018-05-09 11:50|| Front Page Top

#7 One word - Iowa. It ain't happening. Next they'll be asking him to cut Social Security and Medicare. Not happening either.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-05-09 17:47|| 2018-05-09 17:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Dump this RFS lunacy. We have enough high fructose corn syrup in our lives, don't need high octane corn sludge to further placate the corn belt/farm lobby.

Posted by Clem 2018-05-09 17:57|| 2018-05-09 17:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Tell the corn lobby to make whiskey from their corn.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-09 17:58|| 2018-05-09 17:58|| Front Page Top

#10 At #4 -- I don't think it was a scarcity. Prices of corn tortillas shot up. So, yes, perhaps a scarcity of inexpensive corn tortillas & other corn products.

Posted by Clem 2018-05-09 17:58|| 2018-05-09 17:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Cambridge & Brookline

From the sticks (Dudley Square, Malcolm X!)
Past a basilisk built outta bricks,
Into Brookline. It picks
Up slick yiddishe chicks,
And in Allston, some kids that like kicks...

Yes, it's Harvard Ave's Route 66.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-05-09 20:40|| 2018-05-09 20:40|| Front Page Top

#12 the price of corn on the cob has skyrocketed in the last few years too

Posted by 746 2018-05-09 21:44|| 2018-05-09 21:44|| Front Page Top

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