June 13, 2019
Gabriel Lade, assistant professor, was interviewed on the NPR program Morning Edition on June 11, 2019.
Year-round E15 could lead to more sales of ethanol if the waivers were reeled in. That's according to Gabriel Lade, an environmental economist at Iowa State University. He says Trump's ethanol announcement does not have a short-term benefit.
"In the long run, this could benefit the ethanol industry, but that's certainly not, you know, the way it's being spun right now. It's being spun as an immediate benefit to farmers, which it won't be."