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Agriculture Secretary Nominee Brooke Rollins has Senate Hearing

Agriculture Secretary Nominee Brooke Rollins has Senate Hearing

End subsidies, please.

President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary nominee Brooke Rollins faces the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry today.

Uh oh…Rollins led a group that opposed ethanol and farm subsidies! Oh no!!! (The tone of my sentences is SARCASM.)

Good. End both. I only use ethanol gas when I have no choice. Thank God Oklahoma gas stations usually give us an option. Pure gas for me!

The Senate committee includes Democrat Sens. Dick Durbin, Adam Schiff, and Cory Booker.

However, it also has Democrat Sen. John Fetterman.

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DSHornet | January 23, 2025 at 10:35 am

The Bride’s ’07 Tucson took a noticeable hit in performance years ago when the country changed over to 10% ethanol-gasoline blend. Power was down and gasoline consumption was measurably up by about 10%. Let the market set prices based on demand, not subsidies for ethanol, and we’ll see what the people think.
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    diver64 in reply to DSHornet. | January 23, 2025 at 11:10 am

    We have tried the Sheetz max ethanol blend stuff as it is 50 cents or more a gallon cheaper than regular unleaded. Car seems to run ok but gets 5 mpg less than regular unleaded.


 
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Virginia42 | January 23, 2025 at 10:40 am

Plus, ethanol is bad for engines.


     
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    DSHornet in reply to Virginia42. | January 23, 2025 at 10:48 am

    Modern engines are made to run on the 10% mix, flex fuel engines will tolerate more, but any more concentrated than that will damage fuel system components that aren’t made for it.


 
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Dolce Far Niente | January 23, 2025 at 10:57 am

The feeble Carter-era oil embargo justification for ethanol subsidies is no longer viable, if it ever was, and it distorts grain markets worldwide.

Ethanol uses more energy to produce than it delivers and is a net loss to every one except Iowa corn farmers and the pesticide/herbicide makers who support them.

How about ending the massive fraud in the SNAP program? I regularly see people on IPhones driving new cars getting carts full of garbage and using a snap card.

how many times has that bs ‘welfare queen’ myth been debunked..SMH.Hey -but you wear one of those redhats so,,,,not a whole lot of critical thinking skills.

Subsidies and crop insurance both protect the family farm. The Boom/Bust nature of ag drives family farms into bankruptcy while giant corporate farms have the financial depth to handle the wild swings in income. The flip side is that subsidies tend to be politically variable, convenient knobs that greedy little Legislative hands can not resist twisting, and once twisted, never go back to their original settings.

Mixed blessings, I suppose.

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