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Save a small engine, reform the Renewable Fuel Standard
Recently, the White House directed the Environmental Protection Agency to begin permitting year-round sale of E15 fuel, which is a blend containing 15 percent ethanol by volume. The trouble with this rule change is that, unless it is coupled with major reforms to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, American consumers will suffer both financially and environmentally.
The ethanol quagmire
As it does every fall, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it is mandating even higher levels of ethanol in our transportation fuel supply while ignoring market realities and the negative impact of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard on American consumers.The Renewable Fuel Standard, enacted under President George W. Bush in 2005 and expanded in 2007, requires ever-increasing amounts of biofuels to be mixed with fossil fuels each year until 2022.
The great rethink of ethanol
For the first time in years, there is an emerging consensus that the biggest racket in national politics deserves to end. Earlier this month, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and 10 other Republican senators held a luncheon summit at the White House with President Trump with the goal of drastically reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard, the federal mandate that annually funnels $13.5 billion from the wallets of American fuel and food consumers into the coffers of agribusiness giants.
Reform the ethanol mandate
For more than 10 years, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has been gradually changing the U.S. fuel supply, injecting more biofuels and corn ethanol into our gasoline every year. Under the policy, America's corn ethanol industry has matured. Corn ethanol will account for 15 billion gallons of the fuel supply this year; it is the preferred octane booster in gasoline and is in high demand as an international export. In fact, for seven years, the United States has been a net exporter of ethanol fuel.
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This November, the election is not the only political decision that will affect American consumers in a big way. It also is when the Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to announce how much ethanol must be blended into the 2017 fuel supply for our country to satisfy the federal Renewable Fuel Standard requirements.
Motorcyclists Oppose EPA’s Proposed Renewable Volume Obligations | Commentary
The American Motorcyclist Association opposes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Renewable Volume Obligations rule for 2014, 2015 and 2016. As an association that represents 214,000 motorcyclists nationwide, the AMA urges the EPA to not increase, and, instead, lower the proposed volumes when the final rule is issued on Nov. 30.
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