Renewable fuel standard hits political divide at energy hearing
The Hill
By Zack Colman - 07/10/12 12:32 PM ET
The renewable fuel standard (RFS) for transportation fuel is becoming another proxy battleground between Republicans and Democrats in the renewable energy debate, as the parties demonstrated Tuesday during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing.
Enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency-administered RFS requires 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel to be blended into transportation fuel by 2022.
Republicans charge that that type of policy places the government in a position to pick winners and losers in the economy.
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It will eventually always come down to a dividing line like this. The case and matter being money, we should just be focused on our planet being destroyed.
-Sharone Tal
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