The Ethanol policy was always known to be BS. The only reason there wasn’t a huge outcry against it was because it was looked at as the GOP finally accepting t

The Ethanol policy was always known to be BS. The only reason there wasn’t a huge outcry against it was because it was looked at as the GOP finally accepting the reality of climate change and the need to do something about it, even if they still hadn’t come around to hurting their donors even slightly for that cause. But it was looked as a huge step forward. Let’s not forget that McCain, in 2008, as the GOP Presidential candidate completely accepted both the reality of and need to do something about climate change in his campaign. Here’s a deeper look into his policy: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/mccains-climate-change-policy/53086/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/mccains... He was aiming for 1990 levels of emission by 2020! But what was not predicted was the complete crazification of the GOP following the 2012 election. And that crazification meant a U-turn which understandably completely erased almost all memories of the context of the Bush ethanol policy.