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The American Coalition for Ethanol held its annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska, last week.
A DTN report says ACE CEO Brian Jennings made an interesting proclamation to the rest of his industry, which is currently on the ropes.
Jennings asked members of the ethanol industry to look to the future and to not stand on the sideline while the Environmental Protection Agency continues to grant small refinery waivers to Renewable Fuels Standard requirements.
The EPA has now granted enough waivers to total more than four billion gallons of lost ethanol demand in just three years.
While all that is happening, a potential 3-billion-gallon export market in China is closed to U.S. producers.
That’s going on while doubt about the future of the RFS continues to grow outside the ethanol industry.
Jennings says the ethanol industry isn’t doing enough in response to quell some of those concerns.
“We have to turn up the volume,” he says.