Scott Walker in CNN political race coverage

On Environment: Keep ethanol mandate until oil companies allow free market

[On the RFS, the Renewable Fuel Standard which requires corn-based ethanol] Scott Walker made clear that while he's generally a free market guy, he believes ethanol is being blocked from consumers and needs government assistance: "Right now, we don't have a free and open marketplace, and so that's why I'm willing to take that position," he said.

But Walker said that his goal would be to get to a point where ethanol can compete openly and "you no longer need in the industry to have these subsidies."

Ethanol proponents argue that because oil companies own gas stations, consumers are unable to access ethanol and therefore it needs the government's support to break through oil's stronghold of the market.

Source: CNN coverage by Ashley Killough, of 2015 Iowa Ag Summit Mar 7, 2015

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