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To: Rohan P a t e l ~ = ~ ~ ~ . : · ~ ~ ~ ~ ° ~ ~ l ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . l ; Ganesan, Arvin[Ganesan.Arvin@epa.gov]

From: Dan Kanninen

Sent: Thur 1/23/2014 6:56:15 PM

Subject: Fwd: RELEASE: New TV d in IA DC Hails RFS

as

Lasting Economic Driver in Rural

America, Asks EPA: Why Mess With Success?

Sent from y iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From Jeremy Funk

Date: January

23, 2014

at

7:09:00

AM PST

To:

Subject:

RELEASE

New

TV

Ad in IA DC Hails RFS as Lasting Economic

Driver

in

Rural

America, Asks EPA:

Why

Mess

With

Success?

Reply-To: RenewableFuels

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contac ts:

eremy

Funk, 202-470-5878

anuary 23, 2014 Lauren Weiner, 202-470-5870

New TV Ad Hails Renewable Fuel Standard as

Lasting Economic Driver

n

Rural America Asks

EPA:

Why Mess With Success?

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Price-Gouging, Taxpayer-Subsidy Collecting Oil Industry Gets Dishonorable

Mention

n

Ad Hitting Airwaves

n

Iowa and Washington DC on Same Day as

Bipartisan Hearing n the Heartland' n Support of the RFS Led by IA Gov.

Branstad

ashington DC With the open comment period on the proposed EPA rule to roll back

the Renewable Fuel Standard coming to a close Americans United for Change

is launching its next in a series of TV ads asking rural Americans to join the final push to

overwhelm Washington with comments in support of the RFS, family farmers, and rural

economies - and against another Big Oil giveaway. The ad called Why Mess With

Success - which begins airing Thursday in Washington DC, Cedar Rapids, IA, and the

Quad Cities - makes the closing argument that the Renewable Fuel Standard has been

invaluable for rural economies the last decade, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and

billions in new wealth while saving consumers millions at the pump. Which is why it makes

no sense to change course so drastically by gutting the RFS. See script below and watch it

here: = ~ : i ; = = = ~ = : : ; : : : = = ~

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The ad comes the same day

as

the is held in Des

Moines, led by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, billed as a public hearing allowing citizens

outside

of

Washington, D.C. the opportunity to testify about the importance

of

the

Renewable Fuel Standard.

As

in Americans United' s previous TV ad in support of the RFS the latest

ad encourages viewers to visit operated by Americans United ally

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the 360,000+ supporter veterans group, and co-sign a comment that will be

delivered to the EPA about the importance of renewable fuels, along with thousands of

other Americans who are concerned that undermining the Renewable Fuel Standard will

undermine our national security by increasing our reliance on overseas oil from unstable

regions and regimes that hate us. aired two recent TV ads in support

of

the

RFS, which can be seen

and '-===

Brad Woodhouse President Americans United for Change: It's an open secret that

Big Oil has spent millions

of

dollars trying to put out

of

business their 70 cent cheaper and

cleaner renewable fuels competition. f Washington does what Big Oil wants and strips

apart the Renewable Fuel Standard, it'll be a case study in fixing what isn't broke that

would make the inventors of New Coke blush. While the U.S. economy has been on a wild

ride the last decade, rural communities that seized opportunities in the renewable fuels

industry have seen nothing but growth, new jobs, new wealth, and more reasons for their

children to stay. That's why the choice before the EPA should be an easy one: either

continue to go forward creating thousands

of

jobs that

can't

be outsourced and revitalizing

rural economies, or backward. Either continue going forward weaning the nation off its

addiction to overseas oil, or backwards. Continue making innovations in next generation

renewable fuel sources that will build on its success of meeting

10

percent of the nation's

fuel needs, or discourage it. Continue going forward in cutting down carbon emissions

harmful to the environment, or backwards and watch

as

oil-industry

related disasters become even more routine. Continue giving consumers cheaper

alternatives at the pump, or take them away. At this I Ith hour, it is critical that the

millions of Americans who have benefited from the RFS from farmers to businesses that

serve ethanol industry workers, to consumers - to tell the EPA what's at stake for them if

Big Oil's bottom line is put ahead of rural America. f you ask the taxpayers, Big Oil gets

enough special treatment from Washington

already-

they don't need another giveaway.

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  Why Mess With Success

Ad Back-Up

Americans United For Change

While the economy has struggled, growth

in rural America has been strong - thanks

to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Renewable fuels create thousands o

American jobs, help family farms and

pump billions into the rural economy.

But big oil doesn't care. They want to

eliminate their competition and charge

more at the pump - all while taking

billions in taxpayer subsidies.

TV (:30)

F CTS

• The U.S. Department

o

Energy estimates for every one billion gallons o

ethanol produced, 10,000 to 20,000 jobs are

added to our domestic economy. According to

the most recent available data by the DOE,

ethanol saves American consumers more than

$35 billion per year at the pump. In 2011 alone,

the ethanol industry created and supported more

than 400,000 new jobs across the country that

cannot be exported or outsourced. In addition,

ethanol production contributed $42.4 billion to

the nation's GDP and generated $4.3 billion in

federal tax revenues. Ethanol production also

plays a critical role in revitalizing America's

rural areas - some o the hardest hit by the

economic downturn - by stimulating economic

growth.

• FACT: Ethanol Cheaper Than Gas:

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professors at the University o Wisconsin and

Iowa State University: In 2011, ethanol reduced

wholesale gasoline prices by an average o $1.09

per gallon. Regular grade gasoline prices

averaged $3.52 per gallon in 2011, but would

have been closer to $4.60 per gallon without the

inclusion o more than 3 billion gallons o

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  f

Washington listens, they'll break what

doesn' t need

fixing-

and the winner

Big Oil.

Tell the EPA to side with rural America;

not big oil.

Don t gut the renewable fuel standard.

lower-priced ethanol. Since 2000, ethanol has

kept gasoline prices an average of $0.29 per

gallon cheaper than they otherwise would have

been. Based on the $0.29-per-gallon average

annual savings, ethanol has helped save

American drivers and the economy more than

$477 billion in gasoline expenditures since 2000

- an average of $39.8 billion a year.

• · Despite ranking among

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Big Oil benefits from $4 billion in annual tax

breaks ... Tax deductions are indeed subsidies, as

API admitted in a document that labeled

subsidies for alternative fuels

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And the oil industry's $4 billion

preferential treatment is written permanently

into the tax code.

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