Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is predicting both he AND his son could have “some real influence” on Donald Trump’s attitudes toward ethanol. Trump has hired the governor’s son, Eric, to run his presidential campaign effort in Iowa. The governor says Trump and Eric Branstad first connected last November when the younger Branstad was leading a pro-ethanol political action committee called “America’s Renewable Future.”
Trump visited the POET Biorefining plant near Gowrie, then spoke at a rally in Fort Dodge on November 12th. In January, at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit, Trump called for extending the federal ethanol production mandate. That “Renewable Fuels Standard” is set to expire in 2022.
Branstad says America needs an “all of the above” energy strategy that includes not only petroleum and coal, but “renewable” sources like the wind, corn for ethanol and soybeans for biodiesel.
