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NCGA to speak up for RFS at EPA hearing
The chairman of the National Corn Growers Association is encouraging agriculture to speak with volume and content Thursday in Kansas City during the EPA hearing on the Renewable Fuels Standard. Martin Barbre of Illinois tells Brownfield he wants this to be heard by EPA loud and clear:
“The law says you’re supposed to do this, you need to do it.”
Barbre calls the methodology used by EPA in revising the RFS “wrong.”
“By doing what they’ve (EPA) done, they’ve taken the teeth out of the statute. The statute was designed with these RIN prices that oil got so flustered about two years ago… they did it to themselves. But that was designed to force more marketing infrastructure, by that I mean more blender pumps. That was designed by Congress to make that happen.”
He says agriculture is circling the wagons in support of the RFS with the hearing just days away.
“Fuels America has chartered like eight buses coming from different parts of the country. They’re picking up people at ethanol plants and growers that want to get involved. Several of us are driving from the St. Louis office.”
Barbre, who will be testifying, expects around 260 people to testify Thursday with many of them being, as he puts it, “very positive ethanol.”
Tags: Commodities, Congress, Corn, Energy, EPA, Ethanol, Farm Legislation, Grains/Oilseeds, Renewable Fuels, Soybeans
Please leave the RFS alone, it is working and doing great things for our local economy. It has created good paying jobs in our small rural towns, increased livestock production while increasing the number of young farmers in our area, and provided extra revenue for the farmers. We used to ship our corn 100 miles to be loaded on barges for export and now we haul 10-25 miles and keep the dollars local. Ethanol is produced from a renewable source and the by products are used in livestock feed.
Why would anyone want to decrease ethanol production?
Sincerely Maurice Johnson