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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank our panelists for shedding some light on this subject.

Congratulations to you on your historic accomplishment, first woman and first Arkansan as the chairman of this great Committee.

I have the highest respect for the work FMCSA and the State inspectors do to protect the safety of South Dakota drivers.

It has been very helpful, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate this. Thank you for calling the hearing.

How soon will we be competitive making biomass into electricity?

I think we have to debunk and dispel that out there.

One of the probably biggest opponents of biofuels has been the livestock industry.

I really think that we are going to be moving more and more to electric vehicles in this country.

What I am concerned about is seeing the reduction, significant reduction in CRP acreage in our State.

I think the point I would make is we are going to need both, and we have the potential to release all of our foreign oil requirements and produce all of our liquid transportation fuels from corn and cellulose.

But would not EPA be factoring that in too?

I cannot see any relationship between what we do here in Iowa versus what happens in Brazil.

Is there, to your knowledge, any scientifically sound way to measure U.S. ethanol production's impact on land use decisions that are made in countries like Brazil?

So, if you went to an E-15 in a filling station, would the small engine users that come in to get fuel for their lawnmowers or whatever, because that has been one of the arguments that has been raised, that that would be a problem, would…

Whenever you call the next hearing, Mr. Chairman.

I do not understand why Iowa has more wind energy production when we are up there breaking the wind for you all the time in South Dakota.

And raise pheasants.

I hate to see us go backwards and allow waivers of the RFS because we are not getting to where we need to be in terms of the goal.