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 Stories About: biofuels AND energy AND ethanol AND legislation AND oil AND politics
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Bartlett opposes energy bill over RFS
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David Roberts |
07 Dec 2007 |
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| I'm a fairly enthusiastic supporter of the energy bill that just left the House, but I am painfully aware that the Renewable Fuel Standard, which would mandate (insofar as one can mandate ponies) 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2036 -- and worse yet, 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol by 2015 -- is a grotesquerie that will do far more harm than good. I tend to think that it will get ratcheted back by a subsequent Congress, particularly once the perversity becomes cl ... |
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