Trump Pushes to Find Win-Win On RFS Changes, Including Year-Round E15

USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue was upbeat when asked about prospects for year-round E15 ethanol sales at the Farm Progress Show. “The president called me this morning and said …we need to get this RFS straightened out and get E15 twelve months,” said Perdue. “He wants something done quickly. We’ve just got to balance it out and talk with our corn constituency, our corn growers, and the ethanol community, about what is the balance with the refineries ... He needs to have something he can demonstrate to them as well.”Six White House-instructed meetings in the past have failed to find a win-win announcement that would please an ethanol industry that has said it feels no reason to compromise, with a crude oil industry wanting some things that ethanol supporters deem would be negative to biofuels.Perdue noted some legal issues and regulatory “hiccups” remain in implementing year-round E15 sales but said of President Trump: “This is what he wants to do, and he doesn’t give executive suggestions, he gives executive orders, so we’re going to get it done.”