NPRA Pans House-Drafted Legislation Containing New Fuels Language
Posted on: Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 18:00 CST
NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, today commented on draft House energy legislation that has been circulated for discussion before Congress returns from its recess.
"First, NPRA has consistently opposed federal mandates that ultimately choose winners and losers," NPRA Executive Vice President Charles T. Drevna said. "The discussion draft fails to pass the test by completely disregarding the findings of virtually every study that has been released, from the National Academy of Sciences to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to the Chesapeake Bay Commission. It also ignores every concern raised by a wide variety of other important organizations, including food producers, environmentalists and economists.
"The new House language only puts the cart before the horse by requiring a new study of the impacts of increasing the renewable fuels mandate after the increase has already been implemented, and by establishing mandates for fuels that do not even exist for commercial use, such as cellulosic ethanol and biomass-based diesel. The proposed legislation also includes a new feature not included in previous drafts that sets a level for biodiesel, which has proven to be problematic at low temperatures.
"The proposed language also unfairly exempts existing ethanol facilities from a newly prescribed twenty percent reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions.
"Congress should not rush to pass legislation before there is sufficient, transparent deliberation and all the facts are in on what the consequences of a significant increase in the federal RFS mandate would be."
NPRA members include more than 450 companies, including virtually all US refiners and petrochemical manufacturers. Our members supply consumers with a wide variety of products and services used daily in their homes and businesses. These products include gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel, lubricants and the chemicals that serve as "building blocks" in making everything from plastics to clothing to medicine to computers.
Source: Business Wire
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