The Digest’s 2018 Visual Guide to the economics, politics of renewable fuels

If you have ever wondered why small merchant oil refiners like Monroe Energy are busting themselves trying to repeal, limit or alter the RFS, but you don’t hear much at all from the American Petroleum Institute on behalf of major oilcos these days aside from calls from RFS reform — but you never hear a kind word from API on E15 ethanol blending or the E85 fuel market, this graphic might provide you with insight into that.

Here, we look at octane value versus energy value.  The values are from this data set collected by the US Energy Information Administration, and represent wholesale prices from December 2017.