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Advanced biofuels grow the economy, lower gas prices and benefit the environment

Posted 8 April 2014 in

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Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing to examine the status of advanced biofuels in the US. The message was clear: advanced biofuels grow the economy, lower gas prices and are good for the environment – and we need the RFS to keep it that way.

“We’ve heard for years that advanced biofuels are just around the corner. Well, we’re here. We’re at the point where it’s actually happening,” said Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).

Jan Koninckx, the Global Business Director for Biorefineries at DuPont Industrial Biosciences reiterated this sentiment:

Koninckx went on to talk about the importance of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) to the continued growth of advanced fuels, saying, “the bottom line here is that driven by the RFS, we have completely re-imagined how we fuel our planet. We do so with renewable resources without adding any additional CO2 into the atmosphere. It is a remarkable achievement. And when you look at this from the perspective of a science company – this has actually gone quite fast.”

The idea that advanced biofuels have arrived and that the RFS has been crucial in their development, and that a strong RFS is crucial to their future, is an idea shared by all of the witnesses.

Senator Stabenow further reiterated what the witnesses had shared by saying “Now we need to provide certainty through a strong Renewable Fuel Standard.”

The debate over of how strong the RFS should be boils down to a simple question: Do we want a future with more advanced biofuel, which will provide economic and environmental benefits for us all, or do we want to become more reliant on oil and deal with the consequences of expensive fuel that degrades our earth more and more with each passing day?

Let’s protect the RFS.

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