Renewable Fuel Standard: did two small Penn. refiners upset the applecart?
In Pennsylvania, BIO was buzzing about a Reuters article that ascribed major influence on the current debate over the Renewable Fuel Standard to efforts on behalf of two smaller, struggling, Pennsylvania oil refineries, owned by Delta Airlines and The Carlyle Group.
The Reuters report said that “the refiners helped convince policymakers that the rising mandates would cripple their businesses and threaten thousands of jobs,” and noted that “Philadelphia Congressman Robert Brady contacted Vice President Joe Biden on behalf of Carlyle, which bought two struggling refineries in his district in 2012.” The refiners were in danger of closing over refining margins. EPA and White House officials said that numerous voices were involved in the debate but that the decision was EPA’s alone.
However, Congressman Brady noted simply in an interview with Reuters, “I talked to the vice president and I told him what the issue was, and he said, ‘we’ve got to try to fix that,'” Brady said in an interview. “And we fixed it.”
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