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Featuring: Kristen McDonald Rivet, Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan, District 8

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We can grind the corn for ethanol and get the byproducts fuel and feed. I don't think anybody really understands that. Never seemed like it got in the conversation. No, it just was. We can't do ethanol because it will raise the price of feed. Of feed? Yeah. It'll raise the price of beef. It'll raise the price of food. But that's not really true. There's enough ethanol plants. We're soaking up a huge volume of corn. (02:06–02:16)

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