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SD Farmers Union says SAFE rule the biofuels solution

The president of the South Dakota Farmers Union and a former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle says the SAFE rule is the path to higher ethanol volumes.

Doug Sombke tells Brownfield the SAFE Affordable Fuel Efficiency rule moves the nation to higher octane gasoline and using 30% ethanol blends would achieve that, “It looks it’s the best way that we could this thing passed to where we could have higher blends of fuel, and not only would it be good for the environment, it would be good for family farmers, it would be good for the ethanol industry.”

Sombke says President Trump could direct EPA to enforce toxics controls while increasing octane with a stroke of a pen, “The solution that we’re proposing is the one that will get him out of this quagmire.”

Sombke says former Senator Dashle is an important voice, “Senator Daschle, of course you know, is one of the main individuals getting the RFS passed and the RFS2 passed and he helped with the Clean Air Act. So that’s the reason we went to Senator Daschle.”

Sombke says the leading ethanol groups like the RFA, NCGA and others should be pushing for higher ethanol blends in the SAFE rule which is in the process of being finalized.