Trump told EPA head Andrew Wheeler to grant 31 waivers exempting refineries from using corn-based ethanol, Reuters reports.
Farmers still reeling from President Donald Trump’s trade war with China suffered a new blow last week when his administration exempted refineries from requirements to use biofuels. The decision reduces demand for corn-based ethanol that slices even deeper into farmers’ tanking incomes.
Waivers granted by the Environmental Protection Agency to 31 small petroleum refineries effectively exempts them from having to use more ethanol in their products.
“They screwed us ... when they issued 31 waivers,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told Iowa Public Television Friday (in the video above). He said fewer than ten waivers were granted during “all the Obama years — and we thought that was bad.”
He added: “What’s really bad isn’t a waiver, it’s that it’s being granted to people that really aren’t [in financial] hardship,” while farmers are suffering a record number of bankruptcies. He said the “buck stops at the Oval Office.”
More: Sen. Chuck Grassley: Trump EPA 'Screwed' Farmers With Biofuels Exemptions
Why does Trump hate farmers? Will they still vote for him? Are they really that dumb?
Farmers still reeling from President Donald Trump’s trade war with China suffered a new blow last week when his administration exempted refineries from requirements to use biofuels. The decision reduces demand for corn-based ethanol that slices even deeper into farmers’ tanking incomes.
Waivers granted by the Environmental Protection Agency to 31 small petroleum refineries effectively exempts them from having to use more ethanol in their products.
“They screwed us ... when they issued 31 waivers,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told Iowa Public Television Friday (in the video above). He said fewer than ten waivers were granted during “all the Obama years — and we thought that was bad.”
He added: “What’s really bad isn’t a waiver, it’s that it’s being granted to people that really aren’t [in financial] hardship,” while farmers are suffering a record number of bankruptcies. He said the “buck stops at the Oval Office.”
More: Sen. Chuck Grassley: Trump EPA 'Screwed' Farmers With Biofuels Exemptions
Why does Trump hate farmers? Will they still vote for him? Are they really that dumb?