Kansas GOP Set to Split over Renewable Fuel Standard in Bruising Primary Fight
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Kansas, one of the more interesting political battles of the US 2014 election season will take place on Tuesday August 4, when Republican (and Tea Party-fave) congressman Tim Huelskamp — who has called for an end to the Renewable Fuel Standard and opposed the Farm Bill, comes up against Republican challenger Alan LaPolice, a farmer backed by farming sector interests and a supporter of the RFS.
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Farm Bureau President Steve Baccus told the Associated Press that Huelskamp showed “a lack of understanding of commodity markets, value-added agriculture, and what it means to be a Congressional Representative to his constituents,” when the congressman said that Washington should get out of the business of picking winners and losers and let industry compete in a free market. READ MORE and MORE (PennEnergy)