USA E15 BIOFUEL DEAL WELCOMED – BUT PRODUCERS CONCERNED ABOUT NEW EXPORT RULES
May 1st, 2018
THE USA’s Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) has welcomed a decision reached at the White House allowing the year-round use of E15 biofuels, whose summer use is restricted in some American cities over smog concerns. However, the RFA is less happy with compensation offered to refiners for processing more volumes of this blend, notably with allowing refiners to count E15 exports towards their renewable fuel obligations. Given this would be an effective subsidy, the association argued, importing countries could be upset about how the “lowest-priced ethanol in the ...
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