During a campaign tour stop in Iowa, Democrat hopeful Hillary Clinton threw her support behind corn ethanol.
Autoblog reports Clinton met with a number of Democrats at a private affair in Marshalltown, Iowa Thursday, including America's Renewable Future co-chair Patty Judge and Iowa Corn Growers board member Bruce Rohwer. Judge stated via a press release that Clinton "was extremely receptive" about ethanol, and felt encouraged "by by her comments about the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)." Rohwer added that he was able to thank Clinton for her support, and believed future conversations on the topic would be "just as positive."
Clinton has supported RFS since at least 2007, when she first made a go for the presidency, though The Daily Beast found that in a 2002 joint letter with Sens. Charles Schumer of New York, Dianne Feinstein of California and Barbara Boxer of California, then-Senator Clinton described legislation that would bring ethanol into the United States gasoline supply as being "the equivalent of a new gasoline tax" forced upon consumers; she would vote against ethanol 17 times during her time in the U.S. Senate.
Clinton's re-enforcement of her current stance follows support of ethanol by most Republican hopefuls, as noted during a GOP candidate gathering during last month's Iowa Ag Summit.
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