The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is one of America’s great success stories, and the bedrock policy that forged our nation’s biofuels industry. It provides consumers with real choice and savings at the pump, while strengthening our rural economy, lowering our carbon footprint, and delivering greater energy independence by requiring a modest but growing amount of biofuels be blended into our nation’s transportation fuel mix. Today, 98 percent of gasoline in the U.S. contains about 10 percent ethanol.
At Growth Energy, we believe the RFS should be faithfully executed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as Congress intended, and that EPA should not undermine the policy and increase consumer fuel costs, hurt our economy, and hinder progress toward our environmental goals.
Growth Energy will continue to support:
The 2005 RFS allowed small refineries with a production capacity less than 75,000 barrels per day to be temporarily exempted from the law’s blending requirements. When the RFS was expanded in 2007, EPA extended these exemptions until 2011 and required small refineries to demonstrate “disproportionate economic hardship” to qualify for future waivers. Starting with 2016 the compliance period, EPA rapidly increased the number of SREs, granting 85 over three years and removing over 4 billion gallons of biofuels from the marketplace.
Hitting the road for the long weekend? Choose higher blends of biofuels to save money at the pump! E15 has saved consumers up to $.60 per gallon over the last several months. That's a meaningful difference. https://t.co/xaIvK4eY9q
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Iowa Corn was grateful to highlight the bright future of #E15 and higher #ethanol blends with @GrowthEnergy & @EthanolRFA on #biofuels panel @gilbarcoinc Retail Technology Conference #RTC2022 @NationalCorn https://t.co/LXF8Qz9OZK
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🔘 Outdated and inaccurate projections for future crop prices. 🔘 Double counted and incorrect emissions results. 🔘 Magnificent changes in land use that are overestimated. The anti-biofuel study from Lark is found to be problematic and misleading → bit.ly/3lJcxs3
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Thank you @EthanolMagazine for highlighting the potential of SAF from ethanol and particularly our project with @MarquisSaf. #SomedayIsNow #sustainableaviationfuel #decarbonization #netzero2050 https://t.co/GthzMKiQh8
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