BURNSVILLE, Minn. – Renewable fuel advocates are hoping a second Trump administration is more friendly to the ethanol industry.
Brian Werner of the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association says the first Trump EPA often sided with the oil refineries.
“In the years of 2016 and 2017, Trump offered about 51 exemptions to different oil companies around the country for about 1.7 billion gallons of volume from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS),” Werner says.
The RFS requires oil companies to blend a minimum volume of renewable fuels into their gasoline and diesel products.
Werner says the Biden administration granted zero exemptions to oil refineries. President-elect Trump has nominated oil and gas executive Chris Wright to be his US energy secretary.
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