It is an important one, and one that Congress does have to deal with this year.

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.

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.

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

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

But would not EPA be factoring that in too?

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 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.

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.

Just one, and then I will yield back, Tom.

How soon are we going to be competitive in cost of production with corn-based ethanol and, beyond that, with petroleum-based gasoline?

So I do not see where we need more land to produce food and fuel in this Country.

What are the environmental impacts of using, of approving E-15?

The result will be a growing and sustainable biofuels industry that will create jobs in rural communities.