Hillary Clinton Throws Support Behind Ethanol While In Iowa
During a campaign tour stop in Iowa, Democrat hopeful Hillary Clinton threw her support behind corn ethanol.
Autoblog reports Clinton met with a number of Democrats at a private affair in Marshalltown, Iowa Thursday, including America’s Renewable Future co-chair Patty Judge and Iowa Corn Growers board member Bruce Rohwer. Judge stated via a press release that Clinton “was extremely receptive” about ethanol, and felt encouraged “by by her comments about the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).” Rohwer added that he was able to thank Clinton for her support, and believed future conversations on the topic would be “just as positive.”
Clinton has supported RFS since at least 2007, when she first made a go for the presidency, though The Daily Beast found that in a 2002 joint letter with Sens. Charles Schumer of New York, Dianne Feinstein of California and Barbara Boxer of California, then-Senator Clinton described legislation that would bring ethanol into the United States gasoline supply as being “the equivalent of a new gasoline tax” forced upon consumers; she would vote against ethanol 17 times during her time in the U.S. Senate.
Clinton’s re-enforcement of her current stance follows support of ethanol by most Republican hopefuls, as noted during a GOP candidate gathering during last month’s Iowa Ag Summit.
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of course she does.
No idea what this article is about, because...that van is BITCHIN'.
The only democrat I would consider voting for will probably not be allowed to run (Cory Booker). The GOP lineup is completely stale other than Rand Paul but he is going to have a hard time trying to sale libertarian ideas to a electorate that has been brainwashed on big government for the past 100 plus years. On a positive note this weekend looks like its going to be gorgeous and gas is still about $2.32 a gallon.
Principled liberals AND conservatives oppose the ethanol scam; it's all about buying votes in Iowa. That Hillary, running unopposed for the nomination, could not bring herself to oppose RFS says a lot about her - and it's not good.