Romney Must Cease and Desist From Ethanol Mandate
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | August 23rd at 10:51 AM |
Earlier today, Mitt Romney unveiled his comprehensive energy plan he will pursue as president. Energy policy provides Republicans with their most potent weapon against Obama in this campaign. Nothing emblematizes Obama’s socialist, anti-prosperity style of governance more than his destructive energy policy compromised of a “none-of-the-above” approach. Well, none of the above except for green energy. To that end, Romney’s biggest ace in the hole | Read More »
The Ethanol Chickens Come Home to Roost
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | July 26th at 09:32 AM |
After a year full of victories for big government legislation in Congress, the forces of statism seemed to have met their Waterloo with the farm/food stamp bill. The more people learned of the profligate food stamp spending and the market distorting, risk-inducing agriculture programs contained in the bill, the more they spoke out against this monstrosity. Speaker Boehner has refused to bring the bill to | Read More »
EPA Mandates Use of Nonexistent Fuel Blend
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | July 18th at 06:40 AM |
It’s bad enough that government regulations and environmental legal defense groups have prevented us from building oil refineries for over 30 years. It’s even worse when the existing ones are forced to blend fuel mixtures that don’t exist. We are all painfully aware of the Soviet style mandate that requires 10% of petroleum to be comprised of ethanol. This unconstitutional mandate has killed jobs, driven | Read More »
Let Farmers Buy the Farm, Not Taxpayers
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | June 4th at 10:42 AM |
There is perhaps nothing as destructive to the free market as the federal government’s stranglehold over the agriculture sector. There is also nothing as detrimental to the GOP’s ability to draw a bold contrast on free markets, dependency, spending, and crony capitalism, as their willingness to support 5-year farm bills. Current farm policy creates inveterate dependency in some of the most conservative corners of the | Read More »
Dick Lugar Haunts the Free Market from the Grave
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 23rd at 10:45 AM |
You might have thought that we vanquished Dick Lugar from the levers of power a few weeks ago. But if nothing is done to stop the impending 5-year Farm Bill, he might harm us with his regressive policies long past his time in Washington. Last month, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed a 5-year farm bill that continues to serve as one of the most potent | Read More »
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Quash the Ethanol Beast in Honor of Iowa Caucuses
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | January 2nd at 06:00 PM |
As the clock struck 12 am January 1, one of the most anti free market government interventions expired without renewal and without fanfare. In honor of the Iowa Caucuses, we can now declare that the ethanol subsidies and tariffs are finally dead. However, before we celebrate this rare piece of good news, we must remember that in order to deracinate the ethanol beast from our | Read More »
Nebraska Gov. Heineman to the Left of Obama Administration on Keystone Pipeline
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | September 1st at 04:21 PM |
After three years of cumbersome red tape, environmental impact studies, and endless litigation, the Canadian Keystone KL Pipeline extension project is close to obtaining final approval from the State Department. This $7 billion pipeline project, when completed, would transport over 700,000 barrels of oil per day from the Canadian tar sands in northeast Alberta to the hungry oil refineries on the Texas Gulf coast. This | Read More »
It’s Game Time for Farm Subsidies and Ethanol in Washington
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | June 13th at 06:15 PM |
This week’s legislative schedule in both houses of Congress will provide Republicans (and faux moderate Democrats) a unique opportunity to efface farm welfare by eliminating ethanol credits/tariffs and direct farm subsidies. On the House side, the annual Agriculture Appropriations bill is expected to hit the floor as early as Tuesday. Earlier this month, the Appropriations Committee passed the FY 2012 Ag bill, cutting $2.6 billion | Read More »
Sarah Palin Opposes All Energy Subsidies
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 31st at 01:31 PM |
As the presidential election heats up, we will continue to track where the candidates stand on ethanol and energy subsidies. The issue of ethanol subsidies is vital to conservatives for several reasons. First, ethanol epitomizes everything that is wrong with onerous government interventions; corporate cronyism, market distortions, higher prices for vital goods and services, and government dependency. Also, with food and energy prices at an | Read More »
Mitt Romney Still Loves His Ethanol, Especially in Iowa
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 27th at 05:21 PM |
Say anything you want about Mitt Romney, but at least he isn’t flip flopping this time around. Instead of disavowing his support for Romneycare, he fully embraced the monstrosity, albeit on a state level. Now, amidst the growing disquiet over the outrageous ethanol subsidies, and following Tim Pawlenty’s mea culpa on the issue, Mitt Romney is doubling down on his support for this odious subsidy. | Read More »
Let’s Nail Democrats on Their Duplicity with Energy Subsidies
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | May 18th at 09:26 AM |
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”~ President Ronald Reagan Democrats (and the Maine Republicans ladies) are agog to demonize oil companies and punish them with punitive tax increases. Their effort was defeat yesterday 52-48, but they plan to continue | Read More »
The Devastation of Market Distortion is Coming Home to Roost
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | March 16th at 05:14 PM |
Wholesale Food Prices Highest since 74′ Food Stamps Surge in West These two headlines are quintessential examples of the perennial cycle of government intervention. They offer a vivid portrayal of how the Democrats perfidiously inflate the price of food so that the maximum number of people will be dependent upon their food programs, thus granting them a permanent electoral constituency. Obama and the Democrat economists | Read More »
Secretary Chu’s Insidious Economics of Energy
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | March 2nd at 04:32 PM |
Earlier today, Energy Secretary Steven Chu reiterated his insouciance to the plight of the American consumer of oil and gas. Chu told members of the Senate Budget Committee that there is no need to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserves because it will be corrected by spare world oil capacity: “we have spare capacity, we expect naturally that the market forces will take care of | Read More »
Haley Barbour and the Regressive Economics of Farm Subsidies
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | February 22nd at 09:32 PM |
Farm subsidies are the most popular form of corporate cronyism among many Republicans. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, this regressive form of ‘progressive’ market intervention garners enthusiastic support from Republican presidential contenders, especially preceding the Iowa Caucuses. Haley Barbour is the latest potential presidential candidate to prostrate on the altar of the farm lobby and support the $20 billion fleecing of the taxpayer. Even with the | Read More »
Hey Barack, Resign Now, and Now Means Yesterday
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | February 7th at 10:00 PM |
From the diaries by Leon… While our nation languishes amidst record food and energy prices, unprecedented underemployment (including those excluded from the workforce) and economic stagnation, crippling regulations, and an administration in contempt of two court decisions, the media would rather distract us with the Islamist uprising in Egypt. It is imperative that we keep up the pressure on Obama and the Democrats by denying | Read More »
The Left’s War on Food for Poor Continues
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | February 2nd at 08:09 AM |
As we observe the efforts of the left to drive up the cost of food, there is no wonder why so many people are having trouble feeding their families. Their policies mandating the use of corn as fuel, as well as the inflationary aspects of the Fed’s recent QE2 policies, have kept the cost of food high for a long time. Now, Obama’s EPA is | Read More »
The Ethanol Juggernaut: Do Republicans Have the Will to Stop Big Government?
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 13th at 09:45 PM |
From the diaries by lexington_concord… It’s always politically advantageous to support tax cuts. However, it takes more intransigence and fortitude to oppose big government programs and special interest handouts. It is even more arduous to oppose such programs when they are coupled with tax cuts as part of a backroom compromise. Based upon Senator Jim Inhofe’s comments to NRO, it appears that there aren’t too | Read More »
The Tax Deal and the Bush Republicans
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 10th at 03:09 PM |
President George W. Bush and his compatriots introduced a new typology of conservatism called “compassionate conservatism”. They believed in big government, entitlement and transfer programs, market distortions such as ethanol mandates, and special interest handouts. They felt that it was all fine and dandy to grow government, as long as they advocated for tax reform. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has always been a paradigm | Read More »
What’s Up with the Extension for Ethanol Subsidies ?
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 9th at 02:29 PM |
As conservatives, we understand that not everything that is dubbed as a tax cut is a good thing. Liberals are wrought to describe handouts as tax cuts and tax cuts as handouts. Thus, the extension of the regressive, job killing, price hiking ethanol subsidies are not good tax cuts and should not be extended. Yet, through all of the discussion concerning the deal on the | Read More »
Six Republicans Sign Letter Demanding Ethanol Subsidy Extension
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 2nd at 10:15 AM |
From the diaries by Erick. To quote my friend ‘Ironman’, “If an uncontested re-election doesn’t give John Thune the political courage to say no to BP and the ethanol robber barons, then he has no business getting near the White House when the successor to Obama needs to stop trillions in red ink.” ————- The ethanol mandates are one of the most regressive socialist interventions | Read More »
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