Tag: CBO

Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) produced a report on the feasibility of complying with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a federal mandate that requires minimum volumes of renewable fuels to be blended into transportation fuels.  The original volume mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) for 2014 is 18.15 […]

Those who have followed the political debates over energy through the decades have observed a familiar pattern: The critics of American “dependence” on oil will keep coming back with new arguments, no matter how many times their earlier arguments are refuted. So it is with a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study on “Energy Security […]