Ethanol Standard Important for Second Generation Fuels

Ethanol Standard Important for Second Generation Fuels
Posted by Cindy Zimmerman
July 10th, 2008
Domestic Fuel - Alternative Fuel News

A Senate panel heard testimony Thursday that a reduction in the Renewable Fuel Standard would hinder progress toward next generation biofuels.

Deputy Assistant Energy Secretary Steven Chalk told the Senate Environment and Public Works clean air subcommittee that keeping the current RFS policy in place is “critical to ensuring growth in all parts of the biofuels supply chain, from feedstocks, to biorefineries, to infrastructure, including pipelines.”

The hearing was focused on implementation of the expanded RFS, which was passed by Congress and signed by the president in December. The new standard increases the amount of renewable fuels required up to 36 billion gallons by 2022, with 16 billion of that to come from cellulosic sources.

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