One Lone Kansas Voice Against Ethanol in Our Gasoline

Economy |
By David Stokes | Read Time 1 min
Eric “Ric” Foster won’t sell ethanol at his Gardner gas station. But his supplier has said if he wanted to sell regular gas, it would be E-10 or nothing. “I’m going to fight this tooth and nail,” Foster said.
Photo from the Kansas City Star.

Sing along:

Go ahead and hate your gasoline,

Go ahead and scam a friend.

Do it in the name of subsidies,

You can justify it with an E-10 blend.

There won’t be any markets working,

Come the judgment day,

On the inefficient morning after

One free marketer rides away.

(continue singing)

And, I should add, rides away with 3 percent less gas mileage.

Thanks to Billy Jack Combest for the KC Star link.

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David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from...

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