re: #240 freetoken

Lots of gasohol in the upper Mississippi valley, though.

Gasoline prices tend to be highest on the coasts, near large cities.

That’s something else: When there’s a drought (such as we had in 2012) and corn crops fail, the law still requires selling a certain percentage of the crop to ethanol producers.

Ranchers in this part of the country were going ballistic and demanding the repeal of that law. Nope. Conservatives support large businesses, not family farms and ranches.

Huge numbers of cattle were slaughtered across the nation as ranchers could no longer feed cattle due to extremely high feed prices in an unfair competition in the so-called free market when nearly half the feed was taken off the market for fuel production.

That did reduce the cost of beef for a while in the grocery store.

So now a bunch of them voted in a President who promised to gut NAFTA, even though they depend on that trade deal. “This time for sure!” as conservatives blindly pull the lever for the (R).