@DepSecVaden the higher the ethanol content, the lower the state tax collected you doofus. This only happens in states that tilt the scales
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The higher the ethanol content, the lower the price. Biofuels save money.
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Pritzker wants E15.
Illinois needs W15.
We’ve lost 90% of our wetlands. Restoring to even 15% would do more for water quality, flood control, and climate than every gallon of ethanol ever blended.
W15 now, @GovPritzker!
Governor JB Pritzker@GovPritzker
Illinois farmers are being forced to shoulder rising costs while losing export markets to foreign competitors thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs. I’m urging Congress to make the sale of E15 permanent to provide the certainty our farmers need and broaden markets for corn.
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Hard truth:
"Unless we develop much more efficient ways
of transporting organic nitrogen sources [manure, compost] or abandon cities, high energy prices alone would not be enough to make closing the nitrogen cycle a viable option....
Also, that manure often comes from animals fed grain grown with synthetic fertilizer, which was the ultimate source of the nitrogen in the manure."
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This is utterly deranged authoritarianism. The way in which so many MAGA Christians have totally lost their moorings in this moment is more than disturbing—it’s dangerous.
Right Wing Watch@RightWingWatch
Right-wing commentators James Kunstler and Eric Metaxas suggest that Trump needs to declare a national emergency and outlaw the Democratic Party: "I think it would probably look something like a civil war." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…
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It took a almost a century for the United States to build a global system of trade, security, and cooperation, and these guys are going to throw it away because they screwed up and have to save face.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Hegseth indicates reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a core US objective: "We've been willing to lead, President Trump has led the entire time, but it's not just us. You might want to start learning how to fight for yourself."
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"While converting to Catholicism, I implemented the most brutal crackdown on immigrants since Operation Wetback & sent innocent Venezuelans to a foreign gulag based on their tattoos. I also read the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the pentacostine rights of the eucharist."
The Associated Press@AP
Vice President JD Vance has a new book that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” will be out June 16. apnews.com/article/jd-van…
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I’ve always believed that one of our jobs as leaders is to pass the baton on to the next generation –– and to give them the resources and support they need to lead us forward. On National Run for Office Day, check out @RFSCivics for the resources you need. runforsomethingcivics.net
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Tens of millions of people in this country don’t value law and liberty. They just want the show and the cruelty.
Gregg Nunziata@greggnunziata
This man has absolute, dripping contempt for the Constitution he is sworn to defend and for the very concept of law itself. Elevating him to the White House, twice, was a tremendously reckless thing for a people who value law and liberty to do.
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American farmers were single issue voters. And that single issue was Harris’ race.
The White House@WhiteHouse
Generational farmers and ranchers thank President Trump: "For the first time in my lifetime, we have a president who is willing to listen to our issues directly." 🇺🇸
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There’s a reason Washington didn’t do this. Jackson didn’t do this. Lincoln didn’t do this. TR didn’t do this. FDR didn’t do this. Reagan didn’t do this.
They were all *real* American patriots.
This is something you see in banana republics, from Mickey Mouse wannabe despots.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: U.S. Treasury is working to put President Trump's signature on new paper currency, a first for a sitting president, an AP source says. apnews.com/article/trump-…
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Even facing a global fertilizer shortage and potential food crisis, Midwest politicians have no vision for American agriculture beyond using precious resources and land to grow ethanol to burn.
The senior Senator from Minnesota:
Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar
Today I called on the Administration to allow for year round E-15. Increasing the amount of biofuels in our fuel supply is common sense. With gas prices skyrocketing and a war in the Middle East, we must be doing everything we can to bring down prices and decrease volatility.
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This is crazy. Trumps 1st endorser Jeff Sessions appointed Mueller!! He indicted 25 Russians. The report was so straightforward the GOP senate report echoed it. Then he retired and went back to private life.
For this he deserves the president grave dancing on him? Trash.
Brit Hume@brithume
Quote: "Mueller’s family didn’t deserve the president’s grave dancing. None of Trump’s many enemies do. But Trump also didn’t deserve Russiagate. Nearly a decade after that phony scandal, our republic is still trying to recover." thefp.com/p/robert-muell…
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My modest 16–30 ft buffer bill was deemed totally infeasible in corn-and-soy-ruled Illinois.
Instead, here’s the Kaskaskia River, with crops planted to the edge of eroding banks.
BTW, ag now wants to claim streambank erosion is a non-ag source of phosphorus pollution.
Please.
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer
The infuriating part is that we could easily capture these nutrients with a very simple technology: riparian buffer strips. Not only would nutrient runoff be reduced, but soil erosion prevented, wildlife habitat created, and carbon would be sequestered.
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It's time to post this again.
csanr.wsu.edu/agriculture-re…
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Donald Trump is a man of very low character whose whole life demonstrates it.
Robert Mueller was a man of very high character whose whole life demonstrated it.
The great division in our country is between people who understand these basic facts, and those who reject them.
From the citation accompanying the Bronze Star (with V for combat valor) that Marine Second Lieutenant Robert Mueller received for his actions in 1968, during the Vietnam War—the war Trump avoided:
“With complete disregard for his own safety, he then skillfully supervised the evacuation of casualties from the hazardous area and, on one occasion, personally led a fire team across the fire-swept area terrain to recover a mortally wounded Marine who had fallen in a position forward of the friendly lines.”
Months later, still serving our country in the war that Trump avoided, Mueller was wounded again, shot in the leg.
“I consider myself exceptionally lucky to have made it out of Vietnam,” Mueller told author Garrett Graff years later. “There were many—many—who did not. And perhaps because I did survive Vietnam, I have always felt compelled to contribute."
Robert Mueller went on to serve our country honorably in many other ways. His rock-solid integrity as a public official—and as a private citizen—will stand as an example and inspiration to all who learn about him, long after Donald Trump is gone.
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The reason that war colleges and international relations programs study history is so that you don’t find yourself saying ridiculous things like this
Acyn@Acyn
Miller: There's never, in history, been a more total asymmetric one-sided annihilation of the enemy than you are witnessing and is unfolding right now in Iran. It has been a complete wipeout of their capacity to unleash violence on the world
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It does not speak well of us as a nation that so many of us have gotten used to how bonkers this is.
It also reeks of status envy and insecurity, which you'd think wouldn't really afflict the most powerful man in the world, but he seems acutely aware that he's not very smart.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: I know a lot of stupid people that went to a good college. My uncle was the longest serving professor at MIT. That means I have much better blood. But I went to the hardest college of all to get into, the Wharton school of finance, that means I'm real smart.
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@McFeely_Inforum Mike, chill. I'm a SD Bison, we love her down here. She was a great DHS secretary and will be awesome in her new role. She is a small town SD girl that has a plethora of common sense, she will do the right thing for all of us.
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With today’s news every dog in South Dakota should lay low for awhile, just to be safe
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