Clinton’s Iowa dilemma
Well. this is a fascinating piece. Ethanol from corn farmers or big oil donors?! Who will Hillary choose?
It seems in Hillary-land, things are always "awkward", from DOMA to TPP to a non living minimum wage.
Clinton’s Iowa dilemma--Obama’s ethanol rule could make things awkward for the Democratic front-runner.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ethanol-hillary-clinton-iowa-216169
Clinton has been cagey about where she stands, offering few specifics beyond an op-ed in
May, in which she called for getting the federal biofuels program "back on track."
The program, known as the Renewable Fuel Standard, “can continue to be a powerful tool to spur the development of advanced biofuels and expand the overall contribution that renewable fuels make to our national fuel supply,” Clinton wrote. Still, she added, “we also can’t ignore significant changes to the energy landscape since the [program] was expanded in 2007."
Clinton’s campaign has declined to respond to questions about her position on the ethanol program. But the administration’s decision will increase the pressure on her to say whether she agrees or disagrees with the EPA’s call to fall behind the specific gallon mandates that Congress had written into the law.
The ethanol industry’s political clout in Washington has waned considerably since Congress created the mandate’s current version, a move that was meant to stem then-soaring oil imports. The administration threw a scare into the industry two years ago by proposing to scale back the requirement, siding with an array of ethanol critics that include oil companies, food and soft-drink manufacturers, Delta Air Lines and AAA.
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