Does the detection of primordial gravitational waves exclude low energy
  inflation?
  We show that a detectable tensor-to-scalar ratio $(r\ge 10^{-3})$ on the CMB
scale can be generated even during extremely low energy inflation which
saturates the BBN bound $\rho_{\rm inf}\approx (30 {\rm MeV})^4$. The source of
the gravitational waves is not quantum fluctuations of graviton but those of
$SU(2)$ gauge fields, energetically supported by coupled axion fields. The
curvature perturbation, the backreaction effect and the validity of
perturbative treatment are carefully checked. Our result indicates that
measuring $r$ alone does not immediately fix the inflationary energy scale.
