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TexasTowelie

(116,496 posts) Sat Sep 28, 2019, 05:58 AM Sep 2019

Another renewable fuel plant closes as Iowa leaders wait for White House biofuels fix

An Iowa biodiesel plant announced Tuesday it's shutting down as Gov. Kim Reynolds warned that federal waivers exempting oil companies from using renewable fuels are hurting the state's rural economy.

"We continue to see farmers that are impacted," Reynolds said at a weekly meeting with reporters. "We continue to see ethanol plants that are being idled.

"They're burning through their cash reserves," the Republican said.

Reynolds met with President Donald Trump, along with U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa and other Midwest Republican leaders nearly two weeks ago to discuss harm biofuels producers and farmers are experiencing.

Roy Strom, CEO of W2 Fuel, said Tuesday he is closing the company's 10-million gallon biodiesel plant in Crawfordsville in southeast Iowa, along with a plant in Michigan, given growing losses.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2019/09/24/another-renewable-fuel-plant-closes-iowa-leaders-wait-biofuels-fix/2433255001/

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Another renewable fuel plant closes as Iowa leaders wait for White House biofuels fix (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2019 OP

Don't they use beans? safeinOhio Sep 2019 #1

Gonna take a LOT of pain before RW heads are cracked--if ever. slumcamper Sep 2019 #2

safeinOhio

(33,957 posts)

1. Don't they use beans?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2019, 07:01 AM

Sep 2019

Ouch for soy bean crops.

slumcamper

(1,710 posts)

2. Gonna take a LOT of pain before RW heads are cracked--if ever.

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 12:09 AM

Sep 2019

Most of these "good Germans" will goose-step to the polls and cast their lot with the party that has driven them to the brink of bankruptcy.

Beans are another hurt.

Only ones getting $$$$$ are ADM and other Big Ag corps who are buying cheap commodities and land at prices below their actual global market price.

That is no doubt by design.

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