Click Here to Watch "Why Mess With Success"
Washington DC - With the open comment period on the proposed EPA rule to roll back the Renewable Fuel Standard coming to a close January 28, 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 airingThursday 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: http://youtu.be/9pqMi4xBMDY
The ad comes the same day as the bipartisan "Hearing in the Heartland" 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 "Simple Choice", the latest ad encourages viewers to visit www.SavetheRFS.com operated by Americans United ally VoteVets.org, 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. VoteVets.org aired two recent TV ads in support of the RFS, which can be seen HERE and HERE.
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. If 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 already common oil-industry related disasters become even more routine. Continue giving consumers cheaper alternatives at the pump, or take them away. At this 11th 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. If you ask the taxpayers, Big Oil gets enough special treatment from Washington already - they don't need another giveaway."
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