Ethanol producers are panicking amid speculation that the ethanol
mandate could be drastically reduced or scrapped entirely this year as
the biofuel loses its allure and bipartisan allies and former friends
team up against it. December saw California Democrat Dianne Feinstein—a renewable fuel champion--coordinate efforts
with Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn to come up with a Senate bill to
get rid of ethanol from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), citing fears
that corn-based fuel production mandates will harm livestock producers. In November,
Washington proposed cutting the biofuels mandate for 2014 by 16% to
15.21 billion gallons. This would be the first cut in biofuels
requirements, which were ideally set to grow each year with incremental
increases in renewable fuel targets laid out in a 2007 law. For
renewable fuel targets, this represents a major setback because not only
is 15.21 billion gallons for 2014 much less than the originally
intended 18.15 billion gallons, it is also less than this year’s mandate
of 16.55 billion gallons...more
Excellent! Some good news for a change.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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