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In a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, members of Congress are urging the EPA to reduce the required biofuel volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for 2014. The letter, signed by more than 150 members from both parties, correctly points out that the RFS is a flawed policy, based on faulty assumptions, that […]
Reuters reports on the latest tomfoolery from Uncle Sam regarding biofuels: The U.S. government on Monday announced $181 million in loan guarantees to build commercial-size refineries making advanced biofuels or to retrofit existing biorefineries to produce the cleaner-burning renewable fuels. Since 2008, the Agriculture Department has provided $684 million through the Biorefinery Assistance Program to support […]
This is Part 3 of a three part series comparing biofuel mandates in the United States and the European Union. Part 2, which focused on increasingly unattainable mandates in the U.S. and EU, was published yesterday. Biofuel mandates in the U.S. and EU impose enormous burdens on energy producers and consumers for negligible if not […]
This is Part 1 of a three part series comparing biofuel mandates in the United States and the European Union. Part 2 will be published tomorrow. Biofuel mandates are harmful for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is that they raise food prices. In the U.S., for instance, the Renewable Fuel […]