Will the ethanol industry's hurricane lobbying pay off?

It’s too soon to tell if the ethanol industry’s plan to leverage the federal hurricane response to rush higher blends of ethanol into market actually worked, although the Trump administration’s emergency fuel policies did act in its favor.

Shortly after Harvey made landfall last month, the Renewable Fuels Association, representing the ethanol industry, began pressing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt for a nationwide fuel waiver that would allow the mid-level ethanol blend, or E15, to serve as a sort of hurricane relief fuel for consumers suffering from high gasoline prices.