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Iowa's anger over Trump's ethanol policy gives Democrats opening

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Iowa's anger over Trump's ethanol policy gives Democrats opening - Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a speech last month to farmers in Texas, President Donald Trump won applause as he talked up recent U.S. trade agreements. When he tried to boast of his administration’s ethanol policy, however, he was met with silence.

Iowa swung sharply to Trump’s Republicans in the 2016 presidential election, but Democrats hope anger over a relaxation of rules mandating use of ethanol by U.S. refineries could put the corn-producing state in the win column this year.
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Ethanol from corn, especially from corn-rich Iowa, has made a lot of corn farmers rich by putting them into the ethanol production business. It's very expensive to ship ethanol by rail car all the way from Iowa to refineries in NJ & blending facilities in states like FL. Change the regs & cut the demand & a lot of IA ethanol producers may not vote Rep this year.
 
I'll believe it when I see it.

For what it may be worth, ethanol subsidies are the reason sodas have corn syrup instead of sugar. A "green" program introduced a new unhealthy food additive.
 
JacksinPA said:
Iowa's anger over Trump's ethanol policy gives Democrats opening - Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a speech last month to farmers in Texas, President Donald Trump won applause as he talked up recent U.S. trade agreements. When he tried to boast of his administration’s ethanol policy, however, he was met with silence.

Iowa swung sharply to Trump’s Republicans in the 2016 presidential election, but Democrats hope anger over a relaxation of rules mandating use of ethanol by U.S. refineries could put the corn-producing state in the win column this year.
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Ethanol from corn, especially from corn-rich Iowa, has made a lot of corn farmers rich by putting them into the ethanol production business. It's very expensive to ship ethanol by rail car all the way from Iowa to refineries in NJ & blending facilities in states like FL. Change the regs & cut the demand & a lot of IA ethanol producers may not vote Rep this year.
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"He was met with silence?" No boos?
 
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