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I guess all the banana trees I've seen in Hawaii and Florida were imaginary.***
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Orange Phenom [15086]
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Cause land is REALLY cheap in Hawaii
Jun 25, 2025, 9:11 AM
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I'm sure it's more efficient to use that land for banana farming as opposed to literally anything else.
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Re: Cause land is REALLY cheap in Hawaii
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Well they do produce a bunch of pineapples there so unless there's something about soil bananas dont like no reason they couldn't produce bananas as well.
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Orange Phenom [15086]
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We consume 10X the amount of pineapples that we grow
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That gap is more than double for bananas. We don't have the ability to grow all that we use.
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TigerNet Icon [155037]
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Yeah, it really shouldn't be a problem to increase banana production
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Jun 25, 2025, 9:38 AM
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a thousand fold. Hawaii should go ahead and do that.
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Is it post like Keowee day? What a stupid post.
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Jun 25, 2025, 9:16 AM
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Yes, we make about 6.7 million pounds of bananas with most of that coming from Hawaii. Now we consume 6.4 billion pounds of bananas.
Definitely feel like Hawaii and southern Florida have enough capacity to ramp 10000% production, hurr.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [109721]
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Don't forget pineapples.
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Jun 25, 2025, 9:35 AM
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After we clearcut the southern tip of Florida, and Texas, and all of Hawaii to grow 5-10% of our banana consumption, we still have those pesky central American pineapples to reclaim.
Guess oranges are out of the question.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [109721]
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Go ahead and grow them here......MAGA
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Jun 25, 2025, 9:18 AM
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We grow 4.7 MILLION pounds of bananas in the US (mostly in Hawaii). The average American consumes 26lbs of bananas yearly, per capita. We imported 10.2 BILLION pounds of bananas in 2023.
Since there is no domestic way to supply our banana consumption, the tariff is simply a tax, as we will still obviously import them because we have to.
This is why tariffs are USUALLY targeted and highly specific for crops/items we grow/produce in abundance, because that's less stupid than blanket tariffs, smart in fact.
We left smart long ago.
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Is this REALLY the level of thought you guys put into economic policy?
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The U.S. consumes 6.4 BILLION pounds of bananas annually. It produces about 15 MILLION pounds a year.
I can’t stand it. I can’t stand that someone comes to this board with so juvenile a response as to say “Er…uhhh…I saw a banana tree in Hawaii…sooooo…we should be all set.”
I mean really. Your thought is to simply increase our banana production by over 400x?
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People are not enraged about bananas. They are enraged about ignorance.
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Jun 25, 2025, 7:13 PM
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And especially condescending ignorance.
And especially especially condescending ignorance from a cabinet member
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Tiger Titan [45383]
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This is truly Lucille's moment.***
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Re: I love bananas.
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the shady history of United Fruit aka Chiquita in South America looks awfully familiar these days.
We are a banana republic.
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In the period of time that I would have normally eaten 10 bananas, I will only
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eat 9 bananas.
Problem solved. : - )
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what we really need is a
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giant gubment commission to study the banana problem and then to set-up banana farming subsidies with a few billion set aside for new fangled farming techniques that promise more bananas with net zero carbon emissions but will deliver no bananas ever.
The commission will hire 80,000 county extension agents to help farmers with their bananas.
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A 10% tariff?????
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Isn't that going to make the cost of my banana go from about 27 cents to 30 cents?
The tariff if we sell 10 million bananas going to net us 10.3 million?
See no need to cut spending, pass the BBB
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Re: A 10% tariff?????
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How about the people who have elephants as pets? Those elephants eat a couple hundred bananas a day. That's a huge problem for middle America.
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Clemson Conqueror [11488]
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Elephants got papers?
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Time to self deport to Africa and India
These jobs should be for American horses and huskies
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Re: Elephants got papers?
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Huskies seem foreign to me. They may need to be deported as well. Its something that at the least should be looked into.
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Build = Grow in this context.***
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