COLLINS, Iowa — The Biden administration is on a two-week tour with goals of highlighting how "Bidenomics" is ensuring rural Americans stability.
However, in central Iowa on a fourth-generation farm, Dave Struthers is calling on the administration for more.
"The Biden administration was touting how green they were going to be, they were for green energy. And I think renewable fuels is a great source of green energy, and we have the infrastructure here," Struthers said.
Struthers emphasized how decisions made nationally are impacting them locally.
"Instead of promoting those things and setting the volumes higher in the RFS, Renewable Fuel Standard, his administration has pushed electric vehicles and things that are going to take away from agriculture and from a lot of the American workers," Struthers said.
The need for agricultural trade is another aspect that Struthers would like to see focused on by Biden, stressing that free trade agreements are good.
According to an Iowa Small Towns Project done at Iowa State University, over the past two years, inflation has taken $8,120 out of rural household incomes.
Struthers emphasized the true impact rural America has on the entire country.
"When the rural economy does well, the rest of the economy does well. Because everybody has to wear clothing and eat and most people drive a vehicle and we can get the food fuel and fiber here from the rural economy. We're the people that produce that," Struthers said.
Biden has said he's working to ensure rural Americans don't have to leave their hometowns to find opportunity.