Sentences with phrase «largest fuels importer»

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They will also continue to point out that the U.S. still has high per - capita emissions, remains the largest historic emitter, is a large importer of carbon - intensive goods made in the developing world, and has become a major producer of fossil fuels.

The recent push to shift responsibility for compliance with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), from refiners and importers to independent blenders and retail gasoline stations, is a flawed approach that could impact consumers at the gasoline pump and does nothing to fix the larger set of problems that plague the RFS — problems Congress must address by repealing the program or significantly reforming it.

This could be done with a simple upstream cap - and - trade system in which all of the needed allowances are sold (auctioned)-- not given freely — to fossil - fuel producers and importers, and a very large share — say 75 % — of the revenue is rebated directly to American households through monthly checks in a progressive scheme through which all individuals receive identical payments.