Agricultural Business leaders gathered at the Iowa Ag Summit where Presidential hopefuls took the opportunity to vie for their attention. Given the crowd, the subject of ethanol is always on their minds and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in particular.
The RFS mandates how much food must be forced in to motor fuel so as to convince smaller minds that this is somehow better for the planet. It’s no less nasty, more difficult to transport, rougher on the equipment, produces less power and fewer miles per gallon, costs taxpayers millions in pro-ups and hand-outs, makes food cost more and makes regular gasoline more expensive. But it adds a spot of warmth to the otherwise cold-hearts of vapid, pointy-headed lefties and their billionaire environmental backers. It also puts tons of money into the hands of the very sort of folks who would show up at an Iowa Ag Summit to have their backsides kissed by potential future Presidents.
Every Republican candidate to speak “puckered up” except one.
(Jazz Shaw – Hot Air) When asked if he would support the Renewable Fuel Standard he just said no. And then he put out some hard truths which seemed to earn him the respect a difficult answer deserved.
“I recognize that this is a gathering of a lot of folks where the answer you’d like me to give is ‘I’m for the RFS, darnit;’ that’d be the easy thing to do,” he said. “But I’ll tell you, people are pretty fed up, I think, with politicians who run around and tell one group one thing, tell another group another thing, and then they go to Washington and they don’t do anything that they said they would do. And I think that’s a big part of the reason we have the problems we have in Washington, is there have been career politicians in both parties that aren’t listening to the American people and aren’t doing what they said they would do.”
And the crowd applauded, giving Cruz the warmest welcome so far.
That kind of honesty wont play well in the established halls of Republican power, but should it continue the people may find it most refreshing.
