Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 6, 2024]

President Donald J. Trump just signed an order letting truckers and farmers run tax-free dyed diesel on the highway through year’s end — no interest, no penalties.
That puts real money back in the pockets of the folks who haul our freight and grow our food.
[….]

Is it a fix? Sadly, no.

Some of the responses:

If I start a fire would I get credit if I put it out?

The Commander-In-Stupid’s War caused this/ Since diesel has jumped $2.00 now he wants to give you crumbs in return with no relief in sight. Who could have reasoned if a country in the Middle East was bombed gas and diesel would increase 50%? Right-why would someone who has never bought an ounce of diesel in his life care for those who have to and need it to survive!

the fire is not put out. We are in for tough economic times.

only if you tell us how the fire is good for us

We see what you did there.

This is only a temporary measure to try to get truckers to keep being suckers and keep voting Republican. Watch, the new supply will run out the day after the election.

what will happen is that everyone will scream blue murder at the end of the year when the relief stops, thinking that by then they are entitled to it. If the Democrats prevail in the midterms, I have no doubt it will be spun as a Democrat failure when the relief terminates. If they don’t prevail, it will simply be removed anyway, because it is time limited.

Lucy. Football. Charlie Brown.

Does it include taking out L.A. and San Diego?

And, not much of a solution; more of a tourniquet.

Is that called socialism?

Red dye.

But it doesn’t help us farmers in running our tractors and combines. The tax break doesn’t work on the fuel we use for harvest. We run off road in these machines to start with. One day during harvest I can put over 1000 gal in one setting. Yes I can save running it in my trucks hauling to the elevator but my farthest distance is 10 miles. Give us some kinda break on the off road fuel that’s not taxed to start with. I am one of the small farmers in my area some guys are burning 3x what I burn a day. So don’t say he is helping the farmers.

Did he tell the oil companies? 🤣🤣🤣

Farmers already use red dye diesel. How is thus helping farmers?

Truckers save 24.4 cents per gallon buy red die diesel avoid federal road tax. Farmers are already able to buy red die diesel for off road use no savings there.

Come on Anchor Man. Really reaching there.

Wait….so everyone can have the option of buying clear expensive diesel or red cheaper diesel in the US now?
And no one thinks this will be a problem?
Gonna suck for people who rely on dyed diesel like farmers when its in short supply everywhere in a week. Lol

Why were they high in the first place??? Oh wait! I remember!

It doesn’t lower diesel prices for farmers. It allows truckers to use lower priced diesel that farmers have always had access to. If it has any impact for farmers, it’ll be that they now can’t get fuel because truckers already used up the farmer’s supplies.

Not really, but cool story bro!

Why is diesel so expensive? What event this year made it skyrocket? Has that event ceased or is there an exit strategy for nullifying it? Who is responsible for this event unfolding the way it has and why would any sane person vote for the person responsible or any of that person’s enablers?

’30 to 50 cents a gallon cheaper’ according to something I read. So,, it goes from around 6 bucks a gallon to 5 and half… Less than 10% cheaper–and that’s just the fuel…not to mention the cost of maintenance, drivers, insurance, vehicle itself…. Yep, that’s better than nothing, but still ain’t cheap enough to really reduce costs for the transportation companies, and therefore, for the rest of us–or the drivers and farmers…

it isn’t. Farmers already used dyed diesel in their equipment. This saves them nothing.
This only saves over the road diesel vehicle $$.
Another scam… by the master conman.

It’s deck chairs on the Titanic time…don’t forget the fact that the $1+ billion “saved” by truckers, which actually goes to highways, bridges, and other critical infratructure maintenance and construction, will need to be paid for from somewhere else…like yer DOGE, tariff, and vote purchase checks…which would be from taxes you paid (note: those checks aint coming, so it’s more tax all around)

Midterms Approaching Propaganda

And where will the money come from to fix the roads?

Wouldn’t need to do this if he hadn’t started the war

It’s like putting a sticker over a crack in a window. If anything, lowering the price at the pump may decrease stockpiles faster causing a bigger problem down the road. Short term relief for long term pain unless a fundamental solution comes soon.

Didn’t he start the war that made diesel expensive?

Congratulations we can now fill our trucks with fuel that is only $2.50 higher than last year instead of $2.90 higher.

Do you think there’s that much dyed diesel just waiting in barrels somewhere? Isn’t this just going to raise costs for the people who use dyed diesel who are *checks notes* farmers?

Maybe he shouldn’t have started an unnecessary war with Iran 🤔

Red dye diesel is cheaper than on road diesel because the red dye is exempt from highway tax. Who’s going to make up the lost tax dollars?
The tanks will be dyed red after the exemption has passed. How will the dept of transportation know if the trucker is using the correct fuel if the tank is red?
Once again the government is going off half cocked with no real plan in place.

You have to find Off road diesel. And many farmers will be harvesting very soon so when all these city folks with their big diesel pickups that have never seen dirt full up with dyed diesel, suddenly the farmers that already got screwed by tarriffs not have to buy higher priced fuel to harvest.

thinking this is still the FAFO for voting this clown into office again.

pretty much. He cuts open the main artery and hands a band-aid and wants praised!

Wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t started a war.

Adding dye doesn’t increase supply.

The demand just went up for dyed diesel
The supply of dyed diesel did not go up
Are the farmers and ranchers going to have to pay more now that there’s more demand than supply?

Just until the election is over.

Let them eat cake🖕🤡

Or maybe he can end the war in Iran that we will never win?

The vast majority of diesel used in farming is already untaxed ie tillage, planting,and harvesting. Of course you already know that.so therefore you are trying to give yourself a pat on the back for leaving crumbs under the table. If you had exhibited a spine, all this grandstanding would be unnecessary?

Ah, rulings by executive order, the fiat of a dictator wanna be.

He created the problem, DA.
Don’t play the save the day hero.

Congressman Mark Alford yay, a temporary solution that won’t do much to answer for having no spine to fight for your constituents. Pat yourself on the back.

So he mangles a dumbass war and it raises the price of diesel and then he signs an EO to remove the taxes from diesel 8 months later to lower the prices for 2 months. That means the truckers will still have lost thousands of dollars due to this orange turnip. You Republican representatives that still lick his boots are just embarrassing.

How dumb do you think people are……

Temporary relief for a problem HE caused

This post does little than to just show how fucking stupid you are and how dumb you must think your constituents are. 🤡

Maybe the corrupt piece of shit could stop doing everything he can to destroy the economy and then relief wouldnt be needed.
Have we tried that yet?

Oh yes, only he can fix it not our Congress because they are impotent being led by the Republicans. All these problems were created by Republicans and suddenly they’re saving America by fixing the problems they created or supposedly fixing them.

So now there is less money to fix the roads? You’re robbing peter to pay paul.
How about if you don’t start a bullshit war creating the problem to begin with. Why are we even over there?

He signed an executive order to try to put a band aid on the problem he’s causing? Wow, what a hero.

Sorry, but you don’t get to crow about trying to solve a problem you stupidly created.

So he screws up but then takes credit while our roads go to crap? Sounds right.

Right. After taking multiple actions that resulted in the cost going up. Where’s my doge check?

And how does this resolve the underlying problem that Trump created when starting the Iran war or supporting his buddy Putin and not telling him to stop attacking Ukraine so they will stop blowing up Russian refineries?
This is a band aid that kicks the can down the road and will short change us in the future.
Money in pocket huh?
What about all the other cost of goods that have increased? How about that? What about soft cost like insurance and interest rates?
What a joke. Stop kissing the ring grow a pair and hold Trump accountable for his based choices for a change.

Why don’t we just end the mess in Iran — you know, root cause it — instead of putting bandaids on symptoms that actually are worse for the environment?
You know, the mess Donald Trump created and your inaction enabled.
Shameful.

Mark, you really don’t think things through do you?

Are we suppose to applaud this feeble attempt to fix what he’s broke?

Mark Alford you are an idiot?

My god, not again? Taking credit for only partially fixing the problem he alone caused! Do you think we are stupid?

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].