Senator Grassley Reacts to Governor Perry's Ethanol Waiver Request

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SENATOR GRASSLEY REACTS TO GOVERNOR PERRY'S ETHANOL WAIVER REQUEST

Senator Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after Texas Governor Rick Perry requested the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the renewable fuels standard.

"The ethanol industry has taken an unfair amount of criticism for the rise in food prices. In fact, an April 10 report by Texas A&M's Agricultural and Food Policy Center, right in Governor Perry's own state, concludes that corn prices have had little to do with rising food costs.

"Instead of scape-goating the growing renewable fuels industry, Governor Perry should have looked closer at the results of this study. If he's serious about lowering the cost of groceries for Texans or helping the beef ranchers in his state, his time might be better served by having a heart-to-heart conversation with the huge oil and gas companies in Texas encouraging them to produce more oil and refine more gasoline. If high energy costs are the problem, less energy is surely not the solution."

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