It’s the ethanol, Sherlock.
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For if he wins Iowa, he will have defeated the ethanol lobby. And beating Big Corn on its home turf is what can propel him to a win in New Hampshire.
People in New Hampshire hate ethanol. Ethanol is corrosive, it destroys engines. If ethanol-laced gasoline is more than a couple months old, it can't be used in high performance small engines. It is hydroscopic, attracting water, another problem with performance.
A lot of guys have a personal problem with ethanol. Go to any tavern in New Hampshire and you'll hear an earful. There's nothing worse than getting all rigged out with your chain saw, ready to rip, and your saw won't start. Your ports and jets have been clogged by residue released by the ethanol in your fuel, a solvent. So you haul your saw down to the mechanic, cursing ethanol the whole way.
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Ethanol is different than almost any other government boondoggle, in that everyday Americans have to put up with it on a daily basis. Some government handouts, such as those to Rubio's favorite, Big Sugar, are easy to ignore. You pay an extra nickel when you buy...-- big deal. But a whole lot of people, working class people, actually hate ethanol, in ways that coastal elites don't understand.
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Because it's more, of course, than just ethanol. It's craven politicians seeking the White House, in the first state they compete in, whoring for the votes of a special interest that the rest of the country is forced to put up with. It's corporate welfare in general. It's the poster child of the Washington cabal, which is so intensely despised. It's what's wrong with the Republican Party, and the country.
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But if Cruz wins those caucuses it's different story. He will not have been cowed by the ethanol lobby. He will have defied Big Corn and its entrenched political machine....
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