Support For Biofuels
December 12, 2017 at 5:45 p.m.
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President Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency recently took the courageous step to stand up to oil companies in support of farmers and homegrown biofuels.
During the campaign, the president promised to protect the Renewable Fuel Standard and oil companies, desperate for even more profit, want to eliminate ethanol production and put farmers and rural communities out of business.
As most Hoosiers know, the biofuel industry is vital to farming and manufacturing jobs in the Midwest. Biofuels support 25,390 jobs and generate $6.1 billion in economic activity in Indiana alone. And a strong RFS helps attract investment capital into rural communities, creating high-tech jobs in regions that were hardest hit by manufacturing losses in the last few decades. That’s why agricultural champions like our own Senator Donnelly have worked hard to keep the EPA on track. But they can’t do it alone.
Thankfully, Indiana and the rest of the American people have someone in the White House who is willing to protect rural growth. Let’s hope the White House will keep it up, because the swamp is deep and refiners are looking for every opportunity to hijack the EPA and restore a fossil fuel monopoly over consumer options at the pump.
Kelly Whiteman Snipes
Rochester
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President Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency recently took the courageous step to stand up to oil companies in support of farmers and homegrown biofuels.
During the campaign, the president promised to protect the Renewable Fuel Standard and oil companies, desperate for even more profit, want to eliminate ethanol production and put farmers and rural communities out of business.
As most Hoosiers know, the biofuel industry is vital to farming and manufacturing jobs in the Midwest. Biofuels support 25,390 jobs and generate $6.1 billion in economic activity in Indiana alone. And a strong RFS helps attract investment capital into rural communities, creating high-tech jobs in regions that were hardest hit by manufacturing losses in the last few decades. That’s why agricultural champions like our own Senator Donnelly have worked hard to keep the EPA on track. But they can’t do it alone.
Thankfully, Indiana and the rest of the American people have someone in the White House who is willing to protect rural growth. Let’s hope the White House will keep it up, because the swamp is deep and refiners are looking for every opportunity to hijack the EPA and restore a fossil fuel monopoly over consumer options at the pump.
Kelly Whiteman Snipes
Rochester
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