Devising unrealistic solutions to justify bad policies is just another distraction from the real problem: The RFS is fundamentally flawed, and its renewable
fuel volume mandates are broken.
Not exact matches
So with that in mind, it's bad news that the EPA - who should be defending the environment - has come out with a new
mandate that requires an increase in the total
volume of renewable
fuel use by the end of 2016 to 18.11 billion gallons, an 11 % increase from 2014.
Agency's Mismanagement Highlights Need to Repeal the
Mandate WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement on EPA's 2014 - 2016
volume requirements for the Renewable
Fuel Standard (RFS): «EPA bureaucrats continue to prove they are incapable of managing the RFS.
There's just one problem: Despite Washington's
mandates — which fall on refiners and producers of motor
fuels like ExxonMobil — cellulosic ethanol doesn't actually exist in any meaningful
volumes.
The history of the RFS is that EPA's enthusiasm for the program has seen the agency
mandate ever - increasing
volumes of ethanol in the
fuel supply, potentially putting consumers at risk by pushing
fuels into the marketplace that could damage the engines of vehicles, motorcycles, boats and small power equipment.