Step 1: Bomb Iran
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The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that it would temporarily allow widespread sales of a higher-ethanol gas blend in a move that it hopes will tamp down consumer prices that have soared since the Iran war began.
The higher-ethanol blend has been prohibited in warm weather because of concerns it could worsen smog.
“President Trump is unleashing American Energy Dominance, and today’s action will directly lower prices at the pump and gives a clear demand signal to our domestic biofuels producers,” the US agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, said in a statement.
The summer waiver for E15 has become commonplace in recent years, and both Republicans and Democrats have called for it to become year-round and permanent to lower prices at the pump. It’s already allowed in some states: Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, Wisconsin and most of South Dakota, according to the Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol trade group. The association said it’s also legal in cities that require reformulated gasoline, or gasoline blended with the intent to burn more cleanly.
There was an alternative timeline where we stopped subsidizing and had farmers grow actual food and used more renewable energy - resulting in lower cost for both. 🫠
But that would benefit society as a whole, not just the rich, so neither was ever a serious possibility.
