There are ongoing changing terrorist threats that we have to react to.

I think perhaps one of the biggest issues and challenges we have to deal with is just public complacency.

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

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.

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

And raise pheasants.

I look forward to working with you, Mr. Chairman, as we pursue these policies that are so important to the growth of this industry.

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

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

Yes, it has prompted a lot of questions, Mr. Chairman. I think we could probably keep this discussion for a long time.

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

I would say that I think today that our biofuels industry is at a crossroads.

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

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.

The Federal Government has made biofuel production the cornerstone of our energy policy.

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 think we need to make sure that we continue the forward momentum and continue to put policies in place that will encourage greater expansion and growth in that industry.

Whenever you call the next hearing, Mr. Chairman.

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…

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?

But would not EPA be factoring that in too?

How soon will we be competitive making biomass into electricity?

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