Renewable fuel standard hits political divide at energy hearingThe Hill
Zack Colman
July 10,2012 The renewable fuel standard (RFS) for transportation fuel is becoming another proxy battleground between Republicans and Democrats in the renewable energy debate, as the parties demonstrated Tuesday during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing. Enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency-administered RFS requires 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel to be blended into transportation fuel by 2022. Republicans charge that that type of policy places the government in a position to pick winners and losers in the economy.
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