Markets thrive on competition. Unfortunately, this doesn’t just apply to real economic markets. It also applies to markets for bad ideas and political pandering.
With approximately 200 Democrats now running for president (we lost count a few weeks ago), the bidding to bribe Iowa caucusgoers is becoming intense. This is unfortunate not just because it is unseemly but also because the offers are coming at the expense of the nation’s well-being and the environment’s health.
The worst pander so far comes from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. When she is not privately belittling her staff in ALL CAPS 4 a.m. emails, Klobuchar is attempting to gain traction in Iowa by fattening the wallets of ethanol barons. Her specific plan is to stop granting waivers to small refiners that let gasoline producers out of a small part of the requirement that they mix their product with large volumes of ethanol, which is economically unnecessary and environmentally harmful.
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Commentary Editor Tim Carney on the expanded Washington Examiner magazine Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads The blending requirement exists solely to subsidize an industry that would barely exist without it. Ideally, the government would grant universal waivers and let the market decide how much ethanol it wants in gasoline. But unfortunately, this is not how the real world works.
It would not be worth paying much heed to Klobuchar’s opening bid, except that it will be matched and exceeded by several other Democratic candidates who actually have a chance of winning their party’s nomination. Even worse, President Trump, a fan of ethanol since before his second-place Iowa finish in 2016, may feel a need to increase his own bid when the general election season rolls around.
Cooper Gutierrez
Every single video ever posted has dislikes, I don't see why people always get so bent out of shape about it. >But why!?? Who could possibly dislike this! The internet is full of retards. Some are blind and don't know what they're clicking. Some are 30-IQ beaners and have no idea how the system works. Some think pressing dislike simply means "this wasn't the video I was searching for". Who cares why they do what they do.
Noah Scott
Media Matters is a fucking joke now. They launched everything they had at Tucker and failed.
Iowa’s critical role in selecting nominees, especially Democratic nominees, has made ethanol nearly bulletproof. Unless more politicians gain the kind of courage that Sen. Ted Cruz displayed when he promised to phase out ethanol subsidies during his presidential run in 2016, unnecessary ethanol mandates are here to stay.
Cruz showed that Iowans, at least Iowa Republicans, can resist plundering their neighbors. There are also many liberals, including the most liberal Democrats on the coasts, who are just as tired of paying higher prices at the pump to despoil the environment. But we fear that in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, even an appeal to Democrats’ concern for the land use, water consumption, and worsened smog created by ethanol will not be enough to stop the corn-based gravy train.
It was petroleum scarcity in the dim and distant past that presented big ethanol with its juicy subsidies. That world no longer exists, however, as the planet is awash with oil, and America is the leading oil and gas producer. It’s time to put big ethanol out of our misery. All it will take to do it is a few Republicans and Democrats with the guts.
Christopher Jenkins
Hadn’t considered that.
Ryder Reed
>Media matters >Literally witch hunt gestapo: the agency >OY VEY WE'VE DETECTED AN ALT-THINKER IN SECTOR 6 How can this be allowed?
Brody Martin
which, if im not wrong would be the largest voting block.
Wow, you mean Trump is for working class Joes like me? I've always been a lifelong Democrat voter but I think I will now change my vote to Trump in 2020! Thank you for posting that information!
Ryder Butler
was just wondering about the quality of the playing.
they got burned since they came here trying to do the same and the void spit them back
Andrew Morris
That's not how white people voted by income. That's how white enclaves voted by income. And you claim to be a college grad and don't know how to read statistics. Sad!
i have a bachelors and I sit here shitposting all day making pennies
maga
Carson Russell
Hahahha holy shit you graphic shows the same trend as mine. You've proven two of my points. That trump supporters are retarded and that you're more likely to be sucessfu as a white Democrat
Benjamin Smith
because basically it's indirect. they just burn everything around you so it's not harassing you. abuse by proxy cowards.
Zachary Thomas
Based and dictatorpilled
Brandon Richardson
i got two beers. if i get a hangover....i ..quiiit.
I'm sorry? I think you have me confused with someone else. Are you saying another person has changed their vote to Trump because of the wonderful information posted to this thread? How nice!
Yeah man because Trump isn't fighting both parties and activist judges with everything he does. This is low energy shilling man you can do better. Also I'm working class and I make about 12000 more a year since the tax cuts and regulations being lifted (70000-82000) so you can suckle on my dickle.
Jonathan Sullivan
wish me luck, I got a very fucky job to go to today
Jonathan Baker
You ever notice that shills never present an alternative? They know Trump is the best option.
rentals, too, probably. That's the thing with these high end grand pianos, they're the analog equivalent of Pioneer CDJs, in that the same way every club around the world has a Pioneer system set up for DJs, concert halls have or rent grands tuned to a standard that every pianist can automatically sit down at and deliver a particular sound to the audience
Mason Harris
>vote for tulsi or yang instead How about no you filthy roody-poo
You're not making any sense. You dislike him because he is retarded and cut your taxes? Maybe you can work something out with the fed gvt and pay more taxes. That seems like something someone of your intelligence would do.
