BIO: Ethanol blend wall is contrived by obligated parties to prevent biofuels from gaining market access.

April 11, 2013 |

In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) recently submitted comments to the EPA on the proposed Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives in the 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards.

BIO cautioned against setting volumes for cellulosic and advanced biofuels that would become a self-fulfilling prophecy, by discouraging biofuel developers from aiming higher.

BIO also recommended that EPA not set the 2014 volumes for the RFS advanced biofuel volumes before the statutory deadline. And in response to requests for comments on the “blend wall,”

Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section noted: “BIO firmly believes that the limits to market access for biofuels commonly referred to collectively as the blendwall represent a series of barriers contrived by obligated parties to prevent biofuels from gaining access to the marketplace. Multiple avenues exist for blending additional volumes of biofuel into the nation’s fuel supply.”

Category: Policy

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