Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
Floor Speech
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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, we support our farmers, but we also support our consumers. I appreciate my friends on both sides of the aisle for this position, but these two positions of being for farmers and being for consumers are not mutually exclusive.
They are right that we should all have a choice of whether we buy E15 or not, but the problem is that we don't have a choice about the Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires us to produce more ethanol than we ever use.
As a matter of fact, these folks up in the gallery here are paying about $750 a gallon to produce ethanol, about 2 to 4 gallons of water for every gallon of ethanol. Thirty cents of every gallon you currently buy of ethanol, after you pay the subsidy, is added to your gallon of gas price. This is going to raise prices.
By the way, you already have the chance to do this. Twenty-two States already have the option to sell E15 year-round. Less than 14 percent of fueling stations in Iowa, where they grow a heck of a lot of corn, sell E15 because the consumer doesn't want it. You get less miles per gallon. First of all, you pay more, subsidize it, and then get less miles per gallon when you put it in your tank.
This is craziness. As the price of fuel goes up because of Iran--not because of President Trump, but because of Iran--we are actually going to increase prices in this House if this bill is voted in favor of.
Delta purchased the Monroe facility in Pennsylvania for $150 million plus $30 million from Pennsylvania, but they spent $2.3 billion on renewable fuel compliance. That is 20 times the purchase price.
Where do you think the price goes, ladies and gentlemen? It goes in your wallet. You are paying for all of this stuff.
I absolutely urge a ``no'' vote on this. Let's not raise everybody's gas prices.
By the way, it doesn't help the environment, either. I have all of those numbers, too, but I am out of time.
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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.
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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
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