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Grassley: Congressional support for RFS ‘weakening’

There’s growing pressure on Congress to modify or even repeal the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).  

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley describes support for the RFS as “weak in the House and weakening in the Senate”.   But Grassley thinks RFS still has enough backers in the Senate and the Obama Administration to fight off any attempts to change it.

“I think it will be difficult to get a bill changing it in the Senate—and I think if the President is as supportive of biofuels and alternative energy as he says he is, it would have a tough time getting through the President,” Grassley says.

“So I think it’s a little stronger in the Senate—strong enough to keep it—but weaker than what it should be for the value it has.”

Grassley says any talk of killing the RFS has a chill on advances being made on new technology beyond corn ethanol.

Grassley made those comments during his weekly conference call with agricultural reporters.