{"id":116782,"date":"2017-02-23T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116782"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:18:18","slug":"ndfu-praises-trump-supporting-ethanol-renewable-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116782","title":{"rendered":"NDFU praises Trump, supporting ethanol industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33006\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi-NDFU) \u00a0 North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) praised President Trump for his recent comments supporting ethanol and the renewable fuels industry.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Cambria',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">NDFU President Mark Watne, says, \u201cIn a time of excess supply and less demand, it\u2019s reassuring to hear the newly elected president support ethanol.\u00a0 Ethanol drives the demand for corn, and corn helps increase commodity prices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Trump wrote in a letter to attendees of the National Ethanol Conference that was released on Tuesday. &#8220;Rest assured that your president and this administration value the importance of renewable fuels to America&#8217;s economy and to our energy independence, As I emphasized throughout my campaign, renewable fuels are essential to America&#8217;s energy strategy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">President Trump also said he was committed to reducing the regulatory burden on all businesses and reform regulations that impede growth, increase consumer costs, and eliminate good-paying jobs without providing sufficient environmental or public health benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Watne said EPA\u2019s interpretation of the Clean Air Act has restricted the sale of mid-level high-octane fuel such as E30. He added, \u201cNational energy labs have demonstrated that high-octane blends do not impair performance in non-flex fuel or standard vehicles. The use of E30 would actually reduce harmful emissions more effectively than E10.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi-NDFU) \u00a0 North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) praised President Trump for his recent comments supporting ethanol and the renewable fuels industry. \u00a0 NDFU President Mark Watne, says, \u201cIn a time of excess supply and less demand, it\u2019s reassuring to hear the newly elected president support ethanol.\u00a0 Ethanol drives the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116784,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116782\/revisions\/116784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}