Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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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1 comment:

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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