Some of this has been a redefinition of what is included in cellulosic and what is included in advanced fuels.

I encourage you to continue supporting the RFS. Let us look at ways we can further research and development in this industry.

If we create further uncertainty about the future of the RFS and our commitment to biofuels, it will only serve to slow our research and investment down.

It is certainly not time to hit the panic button and pull the rug out from under this burgeoning industry.

President-Elect Trump supports the RFS, and we all know how important that is to markets and to certainty for our farmers.

The only thing worse than a RIN is fake RIN, and that is what takes it away.

I am exceptionally skeptical that any industry could have a $200 million cost... and that would not be then passed on to the consumer in some ways.

One of the main goals of the RFS was to get us off any imported energy sources.

Congress created the unworkable RFS formula. The EPA is left trying to make it work anyway.

It has spurred investment in domestic energy production. It has helped grow our economy throughout the Midwest.

I am all for an open process on it. It is a complicated, difficult issue.

the statute itself does not work with the gallons requirement, based on the gallons that we are using.

the innovation we want to be able to maintain. Obviously that is part of where we are. We always want to be able to innovate in energy.

So if I remember correctly, and again, it is off the top of my head, about eight million additional acres are now corn that used to not be corn.

According to CBO, if the RFS was repealed or if its future mandates were kept at previously proposed 2014 levels, corn-based ethanol production would remain at 13 billion gallons and American consumers would have lower gas prices.

I would tell you, looking back on it, 10 years later, we obviously have seen great progress in corn-based ethanol.

The one thing that I heard over and over again was, one of the reasons that we are not seeing the gain in ethanol is because the price of gasoline is too cheap.

If that would the primary fuel out there, then my folks in Oklahoma could not drive their 1978 Silverado Chevy pickup, because they would not have a good fuel option for that as well, and that is the other challenge that is in this.