Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) on Friday proposed legislation to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
Keystone State conservatives have announced that they will eliminate RFS and its destructive outcome laws.
“Eliminating RFS is an important step to maintain these important jobs and reduce inflationary pressures,” Perry said in a written statement to Breitbart News. “By removing this mission, we can curb the rising costs that are increasing household budgets to limit.”
“While RFS was intended to promote the use of environmentally friendly fuels, the environmental benefits of ethanol, especially in gasoline exchanges, are highly questionable. Assessing the full environmental impact of increasing water, land and energy resources required, it became clear that RFS produced net-negative environmental impacts,” he continued.
There is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) It's attracting attention Congress created an RFS to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce reliance on imported oil while expanding the renewable fuel sector.
RFS Program need A certain amount of renewable fuel used to replace the amount of fossil fuel in transport fuel, household heating, or jet fuel.
However, Perry's office argues that RFS has failed to reduce dependence on foreign oil and promote environmentally friendly fuel alternatives.
It is available at Heritage Foundation It's attracting attention The use of corn-based ethanol in gasoline is limited to raising feed prices for cattle and poultry farmers and diverting valuable farmland from other agricultural uses.
Even within the scope of our mission, we rely on inexpensive biofuels from foreign sources to meet our requirements. US consumption Biodiesel in 2016 produced only 1.568 billion gallons of biodiesel in 2016. 708 million gallons Imported in 2016 448 million gallons Imported only from Argentina.
Essentially a quarter of all biodiesel consumed in the US in 2016 were imported from other countries. an Last year, the overall net exporter of ethanolin the US Biodiesel Net Importer.
“Because biofuels were once challenged as an important tool to mitigate climate change, the UN's 2007 intergovernmental report on climate change acknowledged that biofuel policies have negatively affected the lives of the poor, diverting land to produce biofuels, and being negatively affected by the environment and climate.” I wrote it In another paper.
It is also common to use ethanol in gasoline. include It may contain about 30% less energy per unit volume than gasoline and contains more fuel containment than gasoline. damage Small engine and an old car.
Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him with x @seanmoran3.
