PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SCHEDULED TO TALK ABOUT ENERGY POLICY IN IOWA TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY EXPECTED TO HEAR ABOUT CORN-BASED ETHANOL AND THE HIGHER E-15 BLEND GOING YEAR-ROUND FROM COAST-TO-COAST.
GRASSLEY SAYS E-15 COULD BE A 14-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY FOR CORN GROWERS, WHILE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT JUST SPENT 12-BILLION ON THE FARMER BRIDGE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
CG1 OC……. “THE LEGISLATION” ;16
THANKS TO SPECIAL WAIVERS, THE 15-PERCENT ETHANOL BLEND HAS BEEN AVAILABLE YEAR-ROUND IN IOWA AND SEVEN OTHER MIDWESTERN STATES, BUT IT’S NOT A PERMANENT FIXTURE IN FEDERAL LAW.
CG2 OC……….”IT AT ALL” :10
A FUNDING BILL THAT WAS BEFORE THE U-S HOUSE LAST WEEK HAD THE LANGUAGE STRIPPED OUT THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED FOR E-15 SALES NATIONWIDE.
THAT MOVE LEFT CORN GROWERS “DISGUSTED, DISAPPOINTED AND DISILLUSIONED,” ACCORDING TO JED BOWER, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION.
GRASSLEY IS URGING TRUMP TO SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL.
CG3 OC…….. “INVEST IN IT” ;21
BOWER RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING, “CONGRESS IS CHOOSING TO LEAVE AMERICA’S 500,000 CORN FARMERS BEHIND IN FAVOR OF A HANDFUL OF REFINERIES.”
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