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Ethanol rally brings attention to Pruitt’s handling of RFS

The head of the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) says renewable fuels advocates are looking to capitalize on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s trip through Rural America this week.

Brian Jennings tells Brownfield Pruitt was taken to task while on a tour of a Kansas ethanol plant Tuesday.

“We had members in the room who were very firm with Scott Pruitt about the problems he has created by failing to make good on the promises of E15 year-round and upholding the RFS.  The report from that meeting was that Pruitt was taken aback a bit.”

Pruitt was scheduled to be in Sioux Falls, South Dakota Wednesday, where a pro-ethanol rally generated 200 to 300 supporters looking to call attention to the Administrator’s handling of small oil refinery waivers.

Jennings says he hopes Pruitt got the message.

“Pruitt was rumored to have been in Sioux Falls this morning, but his schedule has been as secretive as the small refinery waivers he’s been handing out because we do not know where he was in Sioux Falls this morning.”

Jennings says Pruitt is expected to hold a private, closed-door meeting with farmers near Reliance, South Dakota next, and that ACE has a few members attending.