lizkat
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I'm sure God not going to defend Biden administration's EPA take on this one and I'm wondering if Biden will even support this idea. I'll be disappointed if he does.
www.reuters.com
The bolding below is mine...
Yeah no kidding. Some might see it that way, yep. And what a weak excuse for it, too. How many other USA business segments besides the oilcos were looking at "sapped demand" for their product during --or as an ongoing result of-- the covid pandemic? Boo hoo, special tears for the oil and gas behemoths.
I see why the EPA is releasing the 2022 mandates at the same time they're running this inadvisable adjustment of 2021 standards to below the 2020 ones, hoping that people will understand that down the road it's meant to be a net wash on the environment
But, news flash: that is not how the actual environment will deal with it. And there's no guarantee a future administration's EPA will hold feet to the fire on a larger than normal biofuels mixing requirement anyway.
We really are doomed if we're going to keep putting short term profit considerations perennially in front of a last real effort to avoid passing the point of no return on climate change.
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EXCLUSIVE EPA to urge U.S. biofuel blending mandates below 2020 levels, sources say
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to recommend to the White House reducing federal biofuel blending mandates for 2021 to below 2020 levels in what would be a blow to the biofuels industry, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The bolding below is mine...
In the short term, the agency is looking to lower the amount of biofuels that refiners are required to blend into the U.S. fuel pool because the COVID-19 pandemic has sapped fuel demand. The move could be a risk for President Joe Biden's administration, as some could view it as favoring oil refiners over the lower-carbon biofuels industry even as the administration presses companies to reduce emissions.
Yeah no kidding. Some might see it that way, yep. And what a weak excuse for it, too. How many other USA business segments besides the oilcos were looking at "sapped demand" for their product during --or as an ongoing result of-- the covid pandemic? Boo hoo, special tears for the oil and gas behemoths.
I see why the EPA is releasing the 2022 mandates at the same time they're running this inadvisable adjustment of 2021 standards to below the 2020 ones, hoping that people will understand that down the road it's meant to be a net wash on the environment
But, news flash: that is not how the actual environment will deal with it. And there's no guarantee a future administration's EPA will hold feet to the fire on a larger than normal biofuels mixing requirement anyway.
We really are doomed if we're going to keep putting short term profit considerations perennially in front of a last real effort to avoid passing the point of no return on climate change.