Unworkable RFS should be repealed

Robert Greco, API Downstream Group Director has told reporters that the federal RFS should be eliminated because it is not working well and will force higher concentrations of ethanol in gasoline that could harm vehicles.

Comments

‘We believe the RFS is unworkable and should be repealed. Despite repeated and ongoing efforts to address the program’s shortcomings, through regulatory petitions, legal actions and suggested solutions to implementation concerns, little has been done to make the program workable, and sometimes actions have been taken that make matters worse. There is a fundamental flaw in the enabling statute so the only way to fix it is to scrap the law and start over if Congress believes such a program is necessary.

‘The other critical reality is that the RFS program was enacted at a time when our nation’s energy landscape was far different. With the current boom in domestic oil and natural gas development, we are steadily reducing our foreign energy dependence, well beyond what the RFS program has achieved. Also, the increasing use of affordable, plentiful domestic natural gas supplies has helped drive a decline in greenhouse gas emissions. The notion that we need a RFS to promote energy independence and security, as the 2007 statute is named, has been turned on its head by the tremendous growth in domestic oil and natural gas.’

Adapted from press release by Claira Lloyd.

Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/gas-processing/28112012/unworkable_rfs/