@ai6yr awesome and lets just be honest here:

This is a gift for red states that essentially rely on federal funds to function and corn farmers especially.

This is literally corn welfare

@ai6yr Great! So lemme see if I've got this right:

President Netanyahu attacked Iran using the American treasury and military, so the Israeli military could attack Lebanon and Gaza.

Our military killed a bunch of little girls. Israeli military dispossessed 1.5 million people. Iran shut down the Strait and proceeded to destroy billions of dollars of air defense weapons we paid for.

We lifted sanctions on Russia and Iran.

We bought 14 billion dollars of Iranian oil, using Chinese currency.

We've blown through the planet's carbon budget for the year AND we're gonna make it worse.

We're sending American soldiers into a killbox on purpose...so Israel can annex southern Lebanon? Because Israel is the only one gaining anything from any of this.

This is all so goddamned insane. And the House and Senate are letting it happen because they need to protect pedophiles more than populations. I hate this stupid timeline so much.

@ai6yr

They should just approve the sale of ethanol next to the gas pump. It won't lower prices but it'll make everybody notice them less.

@ai6yr

This continues the Trump administration's "governance through knee-jerk reaction" in favor of the last, loudest screamer

None of them have any real idea what they're doing

"But not all are convinced the move will substantially lower gas prices. E15 isn't available in all states and some places don't have the necessary infrastructure or enough of a supply of ethanol to ramp up use, said Kenneth Gillingham..."

"More corn used for ethanol also means less can be used for animal feed, said Jason Hill, a professor at the University of Minnesota who studies food, energy markets and environmental consequences

--> That means consumers could be trading lower costs at the pump for higher costs at the grocery store <--

"I think it's difficult to see when the ledger's settled, how this is a benefit for U.S. consumers," Hill said."

"...the announcement was targeted more at farmers hit hard by higher prices for the diesel they use to run their equipment and by fertilizer price hikes caused by the Iran war..."