February 2, 2021 –
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Renewable fuels were a hot topic during the Senate Ag Committee’s confirmation hearing for Ag Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack.
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst expressed concern about the future of the RFS considering the Biden administration’s recent Executive Order to transition the federal vehicle fleet to electric vehicles. “You will be sitting in the Oval Office with President Biden in 2022,” she says. “Just imagine yourself there, and you are discussing the opportunity for the RFS, but you also have an electric vehicle advocate sitting across the table.”
Vilsack says it isn’t an either-or situation. “I’d probably say to President Biden that I have a 2006 Ford Focus that I still own,” he says. “I would remind him that there are so many Americans, like me and my wife, who have cars that are six, seven, eight, ten, twelve years old. And the reality is – we’re going to need both.”