Ethanol and agriculture groups challenge anti-biofuels effort

In Washington, ethanol and agriculture industry groups have written a letter to the House Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Programs Committee on Appropriations to advocate for continued funding of US blender pump initiatives and US export promotion efforts.

The letter countered a request led by Representatives Bob Goodlatte, Peter Welch, and Jim Costa to eliminate funding for these types of forward-looking programmes and calls on the subcommittee to 'vehemently oppose and reject any efforts to include such limiting language in the FY 2016 Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Programs'.

It went on to say that the funding limitation request is a 'blatant effort to shelter the oil and gas industry from any further competition from ethanol'.

The letter was signed by the Renewable Fuels Association, American Coalition for Ethanol, National Farmers Union, National Corn Growers Association, and Growth Energy.

The full letter can be read here.

 

SOURCE: Renewable Fuels Association