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Janet McGurty has been writing about oil and oil refineries for 20 years, with the last four years as the senior oil writer at Platts. Full Bio
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Jan 2022
  • Agriculture
  • Biofuels
  • Energy
  • Oil

Fuel for Thought: Is it time to take politics out of the US EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard?

If there is a consensus among US producers of transportation fuels about the long-delayed Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Renewable Volume Obligation for 2020, 2021 and 2022 under the Renewable Fuel Standard it is that no one is completely satisfied

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  • Blog
Jun 2021
  • Agriculture
  • Biofuels
  • Energy
  • Oil
  • Refined Products
  • Gasoline

Fuel for Thought: US Refiners, RINs and the RVO

The mandates for blending renewables into US transportation fuels have been a contentious issue for refiners from their inception, when Congress enacted ethanol mandates in 2005, citing national energy security as a reason

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Nov 2017
  • Agriculture
  • Biofuels
  • Oil
  • Crude Oil
  • Gasoline

The RINs fight is far from over, say US refiners

A key aim of the Renewable Fuel Standard was to reduce US dependence on foreign oil while increasing the use of renewable fuels when it was passed in 2005

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