{"id":163616,"date":"2019-01-31T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=163616"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:20:15","slug":"nd-farmers-union-comments-on-epa-position-e-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=163616","title":{"rendered":"ND Farmers Union comments on EPA position, E 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-146783\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Watneapeaking2018-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Watneapeaking2018-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Watneapeaking2018-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Watneapeaking2018-302x175.jpg 302w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Watneapeaking2018.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown \u2014 the North Dakota Farmers Union says, the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s recent position that it lacks the authority to allow year-round sale of E15, or reinstate ethanol blending requirements that were lost after the administration granted ethanol production waivers to oil refineries, has farmers turning to President Donald Trump for answers.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota Farmers Union President, Mark Watne, says,\u201cThe President has repeatedly voiced support for American farmers, renewable fuels and promised us E15 year-round. Where is that support now? This about-face only kicks us more when we are already down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the trade war, Watne says farmers have felt the loss of income due to decreased demand for biofuels, especially corn ethanol. \u201cEthanol drives the demand for corn, and corn helps increase commodity prices,\u201d he said, noting that the administration\u2019s granting of \u201cfinancial hardship\u201d waivers to oil refineries has cut demand for biofuels by 2.25 billion gallons in 2016 and 2017 alone.<\/p>\n<p>He adds, the waivers were meant for small oil refineries that were under financial distress, allowing them to reduce their production of biofuels and circumvent Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements. But some of those waivers are questionable and should be reversed, citing a waiver to an Exxon Mobil-owned refinery last year. Exxon is the nation\u2019s largest oil and gas company that reported earnings of more than $20 billion in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Watne says, \u201cThe loss of market by these waivers hurts farmers, not to mention the environment and reduction in harmful emissions.\u00a0 If EPA won\u2019t restore RFS requirements, the administration needs to find offsets to the hole they created in our market. E15 can be one part of that solution and we should be testing and looking at E30.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watne says national energy labs have demonstrated that high-octane blends, such as E30, do not impair performance in non-flex fuel or standard vehicles. He said E30 provides the most efficiency and benefits to the environment, while meeting the octane levels needed for better efficiency in the auto industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown \u2014 the North Dakota Farmers Union says, the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s recent position that it lacks the authority to allow year-round sale of E15, or reinstate ethanol blending requirements that were lost after the administration granted ethanol production waivers to oil refineries, has farmers turning to President Donald Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163616","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\/163616","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=163616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163653,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163616\/revisions\/163653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}