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Iowa gas stations receive Rural Development grants for renewable fuel infrastructure
21 Apr 2026
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U.S.D.A. Rural Development recently approve around four million dollars in grants for stations to add infrastructure for renewable fuels.
The Iowa director of Rural Development, Mike Sexton, says the funding is for those stations that don’t have the resources of larger chains. “We still have a lot of mom and pop gas stations or somebody that maybe owns five or six gas stations in a in a rural area. And so these costs are extremely high for a small operation like that,” Sexton says.
He says it allows the small stations to stay competitive with renewable fuel offerings. “These are really essential for our smaller companies to be able to expand and meet what the consumer, our rural consumer, that’s looking for E-15, E-85, and then, of course, our biodiesel,” he says.
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