Farm-state fury creates pressure for Trump as trade, energy pain collide

[applegrove]

Farm-state fury creates pressure for Trump as trade, energy pain collide

By David J. Lynch

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/farm-state-fury-creates-pressure-for-trump-as-trade-ethanol-pain-collide/2019/10/01/74a94d4a-df16-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html

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SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — On a typical day, about 80 tractor trailers full of corn line up to dump their loads at Siouxland Energy Cooperative, the ethanol plant just outside of town. The air throbs with the noise and vibration of this industrial moonshine operation, which distills nature’s harvest into a cleaner-burning fuel.

But today, the warm Iowa sun shines on an almost empty parking lot, and the machinery sits idle.

After two decades, Siouxland this month halted operations following the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to exempt 31 small oil refiners from a federal law requiring them to blend ethanol in their gasoline. The waivers, which the Trump administration has approved almost four times as often as its predecessor, have undercut demand for ethanol and the corn used to make it, farmers said.

“The waivers are what pushed us over the edge,” said Steve Westra, 46, the plant manager. “It absolutely killed the potential for anybody to make any money at this.”

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[RockRaven]

1. Oh go screw yourselves!... oh, wait, YOU DID THAT already when you voted for this orange skidmark

and foisted him upon not only yourself but all of us! Well choke on it, and get the fuck out of the way of people trying to fix the goddamned mess YOU made for all of us.

[applegrove]

2. +1

[NCLefty]

3. Here's another link about farmers slamming Trump's for his $28b bailout (so far)...

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-farmer-bailout-more-than-double-obama-automaker-payout-2009-2019-9-1028545235

[democratisphere]

4. MAGA BABY!

F'ing MAGA! The "chosen one" is destroying everything in site!

[Vogon_Glory]

5. Well, you guys voted for the Donald, didn't you?

My sympathy is limited. I realize that farming is a very busy occupation, but I also believe that there was more than ample information about Donald Trump’s character and business acumen (or lack of same) for you guys to make a wiser decision in 2016.

I admit I sound cold. I might have a little more sympathy if it was only yourselves and your future you’re wrecking when you voted for Trump.

But you took the rest of us with you.

[hatrack]

6. 2016 Sioux County Election Results - Trump 81.3%; Clinton - 12.6%

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Sioux County is overwhelmingly Republican in Presidential elections.[13] The only Democratic Presidential nominee to ever carry Sioux County since the Civil War has been Franklin D. Roosevelt, who did so in 1932 and 1936;[14] however, Theodore Roosevelt won the county as a Progressive in 1912 and George B. McClellan carried the county in the wartime 1864 election. In 1992, Sioux County was one of only two counties in the nation, along with Jackson County, Kentucky, to give George H.W. Bush over seventy percent of its vote.[15] In the six elections since then, the Republican candidates has never received less than 75 percent of the county’s vote.[16] It is located in what was, until 2013, Iowa's 5th congressional district which had a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+9 and was represented by Republican Steve King. King won the seat in Iowa's new 4th congressional district in the 2012 election[17] with 53% of the district's vote, with 83% of Sioux County votes going for King.[18]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux_County,_Iowa