As the justices acknowledge, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) will soon require refiners to
sell more ethanol than can be blended as E10.
Not exact matches
According to our analysis, this would generate
more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be
sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce
ethanol from sugarcane.
• Since 2007, the RFS, which requires fuel retailers to blend corn
ethanol into the gasoline they
sell, has saddled American motorists with
more than $ 10 billion per year in extra fuel costs above what they would have paid if they had purchased gasoline alone.
Arguing that «there is no doubt it should be repealed,» the Washington Post editorial board explains: «Blending
more and
more ethanol into gasoline will require spending money on infrastructure that is not yet in place and
selling more fuel that older and
more specialized engines can not take.»
These vehicles have been
sold for
more than a decade —
more than 15 million are driven today — but up to now have not run on
ethanol very often.