Articles Tagged: ethanol

Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat seeking re-election, joins many Republicans and ethanol industry leaders in calling for the Biden administration to utilize E15 to ease gas price pressures on consumers.

With just 23 calendar days — which means closer to 18 actual legislative work days, since lawmakers rarely work on Fridays — remaining until lawmakers’ expense reimbursements run out, the push to adjournment begins in earnest next week.

In Iowa, the average gas price Thursday was $3.924, but topped $4 in many rural areas according to AAA. However, Iowa lawmakers say they’ve heard little talk of suspending state motor fuel taxes -- 30 cents a gallon state tax on gas and ethanol, and 32.5 on diesel fuel.

U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are introducing legislation to replace banned Russian oil with American renewable fuels, saying biofuels are less expensive then straight-up petroleum products.

Proposed income tax cuts are on the move, and work on the next state budget has started earlier than normal.

The proposal passed through a streamlined legislative process Tuesday in the Iowa Senate, leaving it just a few legislative steps away from the governor’s pen.

Requiring fuel retailers to sell ethanol-blended products will not only spur demand for Iowa corn-based ethanol and produce savings for motorists, but promote its use beyond the state’s borders, backers said during debate in the Iowa House.

The push back from stakeholders was not as severe in this, the second attempt by Gov. Kim Reynolds to create a statewide ethanol requirement.

Navigator, a Texas-based company, is proposing a 1,300-mile pipeline that would pass through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, Benton, Cedar, Delaware and Iowa, capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol and fertilizer plants and transporting the liquid form of the gas to a sequestration site in western Illinois.

Summit Carbon Solutions is looking to build a five-state carbon pipeline that could help Iowa’s ethanol industry but has faced some opposition.

With climate change already knocking at our door, there’s a more urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases than 10 to 15 years down the road. That’s where ethanol comes in, according to industry proponents.

Her biofuels bargain underscores the political strategy embedded in the negotiations over massive new federal spending. While Democrats have set out to pass ambitious bills with historic expansions of the social safety net and their long-sought new programs, that's not how many politically vulnerable Democrats such as Axne are selling them at home

State officials and businesses alike are hopeful carbon capture pipelines “revolutionize” agriculture and other industries.

The decision deals a significant blow to the ethanol industry and corn farmers who grow the crop from which the fuel additive is made. They had anticipated increased demand through year-round sales of a higher blend.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Using his words, Iowa’s Republican U.S. senators are holding President Joe Biden accountable for his earlier commitments …