companies have come out against it including royal dutch shell which encouraged trump to do more. trump tweeted out, quote, the farmers are going to be so however, that is not the reaction coming from many of america's farmers who have already been hard hit because of trump's trade war. the trump epa recently exempted 31 small oil refineries from rules that require them to blend ethanol into their fuel supply issuing 85 total exemptions since trump took office. ethanol comes from corn grown by american farmers who have facing lost revenue from wasted crops and depressed corn price which have fallen 11% due to the waivers. ethanol prices have dropped 12% resulting in more than a dozen plants shutting down or halting operations in the u.s. this year, resulting in more than 2,500 lost jobs. and the stocks jumped as