# Ted Cruz vs. Ethanol **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 3, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-vs-ethanol/745074 "2016-02-03T18:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-vs-ethanol/745074/1 "2016-02-03T18:31:46Z")
One aspect that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention by most people is Cruz’s opposition to the ethanol subsidies. The people who did pay attention thought that it would hurt him. > [@](#): > > The ethanol lobby is a paper tiger, and Ted Cruz just tore it to shreds. > > Cruz, the country’s most famous enemy of the federal ethanol mandate, just won Iowa, winning more votes than any person in the history of the caucuses. [![](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/collage-maker-25-oct-2023-04-12-pm-6409.jpg) ](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/collage-maker-25-oct-2023-04-12-pm-6409.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-vs-ethanol/745074/2 "2016-02-03T18:39:22Z")
I wonder if low oil prices has taken the wind out of the ethanol advocates. Hard to say that we need grown in the USA corn for ethanol as opposed to evil foreign oil when there’s such an oil glut. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-vs-ethanol/745074/3 "2016-02-03T18:42:45Z")
[Bernie Sanders and Ethanol](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=782863) thread in GD, if you’re interested…