The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 387
Open Letter To Mark Levin About Ethanol, Donald
Trump and Ted Cruz
Originally published January 19, 2016
Hi Mark –
I'm the co-founder and co-owner of The Auto Channel, the Internet's largest
automotive information resource and a small broadcast television network. I am
a real free-market, balls-to-the-wall capitalist, entrepreneur, and American patriot. I have owned my own businesses since my late teens, and I'm now in my
mid-60's.
I was listening to your radio show this afternoon, as I often do when in my car
in the afternoons. I heard your comments regarding ethanol, Donald Trump,
and Ted Cruz.
Your position on ethanol is incorrect; not a little incorrect, completely incorrect.
If you are against subsidies then you should be howling mad at the oil industry.
They receive many, many times more subsidies than the ethanol industry and
this has been going on for over 100 years.
You say that ethanol subsidies should be removed and that if ethanol is so good
then let it stand on its own. But the truth is that all subsidies to the oil industry
