The President’s Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, says the Administration “refuses to rule out limitations on exports.”
American family farmers and ranchers steward our nation’s resources by willingly and actively investing in new conservation practices and technologies.
They preach sacrifice and control, but gorge themselves on Capitalism whenever they can.
EPA’s primary role is to confirm what was already laid out by statute in terms of annual volumes of biofuels. That so called “renewable fuels schedule” established in 2005 and update in 2007 requires an ever increasing amount of biofuel to be blended into the nation’s fuel supply until the total hits 36 billion gallons in 2022. Those volumes, however, are completely unrealistic – a fact even EPA recognizes.
If ever there were a case study in the absurdity of industrial policy, the federal mandates for cellulosic ethanol should be exhibit number one.