New Regulations Require Oil Refiners To Use Cellulosic Ethanol
EPA blasted for requiring oil refiners to add type of fuel that's merely hypothetical.
June 22, 2012
Federal regulations can be maddening, but none more so than a current one that demands oil refiners use millions of gallons of a substance, cellulosic ethanol, that does not exist.
"As ludicrous as that sounds, it's fact," says Charles Drevna, who represents refiners. "If it weren't so frustrating and infuriating, it would be comical."
And Tom Pyle of the Institute of Energy Research says, "the cellulosic biofuel program is the embodiment of government gone wild."
Refiners are at their wits' end because the government set out requirements to blend cellulosic ethanol back in 2005, assuming that someone would make it. Seven years later, no one has.
"None, not one drop of cellulosic ethanol has been produced commercially. It's a phantom fuel," says Pyle. "It doesn't exist in the marketplace."
And Drevna adds, "forcing us to use a product that doesn't exist, they might as well tell us to use unicorns."
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