Max Armstrong recalls all the times the petroleum has stepped up to fight farmers on renewable fuels. The industry has spent millions to lobby against the challenge, but now times have changed. The industry wants to ally with farmers over the Biden Administration's push to electric cars. The industry has been reaching out to the renewable fuel industry to reduce carbon levels in fuels used by conventional vehicles.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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