@EthanSmidt32 I think the “excess profit” of the ethanol is subsidising the relatively lower profit of the other regular fuels and the stations do that because, they can.
@Brad_Setser I remember talking about it in my macro-econ class when we thought they’d actually float it fully. Was kinda bummed but not suprized they banded it when it actually happened.
@fiago7 Come to Ontonagon, MI and see what happens to a once busy midwest industrial port town post NAFTA/WTO. Copper Harbor is mid at best but if you’re in the neighborhood might as well take a cruise up there too.
@thecavedaddy Bought a Yeti with some rando gift cards and I really like it. Used to be a hater. 20lb bag of ice gets me like 4-5 days. Rtic might be fine never had one.
America’s food supply is safe, and the @USDA is taking swift, aggressive action to eradicate New World screwworm.
This is a pest the United States successfully eradicated in the 1960s through coordinated science and sterile fly technology.
Under the previous administration, New World screwworm began to re-emerge and move north through the Darien Gap as millions of people traveled towards the southern border.
By 2023, screwworm was present in Mexico.
It was shocking when I came into office in February of last year to learn the last administration had just five full-time staff working on screwworm.
As of last Wednesday, when our first New World screwworm case was confirmed, USDA had over 100 staff working on preparedness and response—a team we built over the last 14 months in anticipation of this moment. This in addition to the $1.3 billion committed and invested for new infrastructure and sterile fly facilities, the first opening later this month.
We have rapidly scaled up our response: expanding surveillance across high-risk corridors, strengthening coordination with state agriculture officials and international partners, and accelerating deployment of proven sterile fly operations that were used successfully to push this pest out of the United States in the 1960s and all the way to South America by the 1980s.
We beat screwworm in the ’60s, and we will beat it again. Visit https://t.co/WLHhKbcWyr for more information and up to date information.🐄🇺🇸