Source: Rod Swoboda, WALLACES FARMER, 2/28/18

At a White House meeting February 27, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) urged President Trump to adopt Cruz’s proposal to allow the use of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) waiver credits. Supporters of ethanol and biodiesel say that would gut the demand for biofuels. Iowa Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, who attended the meeting, refused to accept the proposal and told the president the waiver idea Cruz is pushing “would destroy ethanol demand.”

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