Haley Campaign Press Release - Haley Hits DeSantis on Renewable Fuel Standard Flip-Flop

ALTOONA, Iowa — Nikki Haley spoke to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit in Altoona, Iowa this morning, laying out her vision for a strong American and her plan for energy dominance. She also called out Ron DeSantis for lying about his anti-energy record

HALEY: Ron DeSantis just came here and spoke to you. Did he tell you that he authored legislation to ban the Renewable Fuel Standard? Did he tell you that he co-sponsored five different bills to ban the Renewable Fuel Standard? Did he tell you that he called out Trump and told him to stop offshore drilling in federal waters? Did he tell you that he banned fracking, did he tell you that he banned offshore drilling? Because he did.

The Haley campaign also released a video on DeSantis' awkward tap-dancing on ethanol.

"Ron DeSantis flip-flops like an Olympic gymnast, but falls flat on his face every single time," said Haley Iowa spokesman Pat Garrett. "As a congressman, DeSantis wrote legislation to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard and called it 'socialism.' Now, he refuses to answer Iowans' questions about where he really stands on important energy policy. Hurry up, he only has four days left to figure it out."

BACKGROUND

DeSantis sponsored one piece of legislation and cosponsored five pieces of legislation to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard.

• In 2015, DeSantis introduced legislation to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard.
• DeSantis cosponsored five pieces of legislation to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard: HR 259, HR 1461, HR 1001, HR 703, HR 1314.
• Ron DeSantis wrote a 2015 op-ed denouncing the ethanol program: "There is perhaps no better example of this type of venture socialism than the infamous ethanol mandate, aka the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Enacted in 2007, the RFS is a harmful policy that damages car and boat engines, hurts the environment, reduces fuel efficiency and places an upward pressure on gas and food prices."

DeSantis' call for energy dominance is a farce considering he has long opposed offshore drilling and fracking.

• As a candidate for governor, he called on the Trump administration to drop plans for drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
• He promised to ban fracking and drilling on his gubernatorial campaign website.
• On his second day in office as governor, DeSantis issued executive orders banning fracking and offshore drilling in Florida. He was praised by the Sierra Club