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Iowans Fueled with Pride: Congressman, the recent introduction of the EPA appropriations bill would effectively ban E15…
Ron Paul: It would ban what?
Iowans Fueled with Pride: It would ban E15 ethanol gasoline.
Ron Paul: Yeah?
Iowans Fueled with Pride: I was wondering if you would oppose that bill?
Ron Paul: I don’t want to ban anything. But I don’t want any mandates either.
I want ethanol to exist, but I don’t want to artificially boost it.
I don’t want to ban ethanol, but I want the market to determine, you know, which is the best energy.
I don’t believe much in tariffs or mandates, but I wouldn’t have banning anything.
What would that do, it would ban would ban the production of ethanol?
Iowans Fueled with Pride: Yup, the introduction of E15 gasoline, 15% blend. It would ban that.
Ron Paul: Yeah, but I wonder. You would think the environmentalists would want that. There are some people who want to ban it?
I think the market should decide if it’s a good idea and it’s economic.
Iowans Fueled with Pride: Its Republican Congressmen from the oil states that have introduced it.
Ron Paul: Oh, they want to do that?
See, one minute they give an answer to one person, the other one has to come back and give an answer for themselves. All this stuff can be sorted out through the marketplace.
No appropriations and no mandates. If you try to apply those, everything’s voluntary and the consumer gets to decide which products will survive.
For instance, we have the ethanol from corn because of subsidies. We have tax imports as well as mandates. In Texas they could raise sugar cane like they raise sugar cane in Brazil. But we don’t allow it because we don’t give the same tax credits and things.
So you want the market to work and sort it out.
You don’t want to mandate it or prohibit it.
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