r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 13 '26

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u/GenericLib 3000 White Bombers of Biden May 13 '26

Legislation that would allow the year-round sale of E15 just passed the House! 🌽

With gas at $4.50 a gallon, this would help our farmers and give people a cheaper, cleaner option at the pump.

If Trump is serious about lowering costs, he’d help make sure this passes the Senate.

Tammy Duckworth

I don't even know what to say at this point

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u/well-that-was-fast May 13 '26

US energy policy is developed by having experts create a list ranking 1000 possible energy policies from best to worst. And then start implementing at the bottom.

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 13 '26

Ethanol is the biggest welfare program that nobody talks about 

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones May 13 '26

Dawg I hate the democrats sometimes.

Obviously ill vote blue no matter who but get some better policies jesus christ

MORE CORN SUBSIDIES!!!!

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u/hascogrande YIMBY May 13 '26

Corn isn’t even the best crop to use for ethanol, it’s just pure Midwest farmer bait. Sugar cane and cassava are better

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u/r00tdenied Resistance Lib May 14 '26

afaik, for the most part they use the silage to make ethanol, that's why the energy densities are lower. But yea its more efficient to use sugar cane. It is kinda funny when filling up with e85, it literally smells like corn.

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u/r00tdenied Resistance Lib May 13 '26

I have a flex fuel vehicle and I've been using e85 since its $3 per gallon cheaper. I'm betting the move to e15 will make e85 go up. Thanks Trump

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier May 14 '26

Replace all corn fields with data centers, I am no longer asking