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Today’s Senate Hearing: E15 and GHGs
Posted 11 December 2013 in
Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee is holding a hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard and an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal that would lower the amount of renewable fuel in the nation’s fuel supply next year.
Representatives from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) plan to cite a number of bogus and debunked studies related to E15 and greenhouse gas emissions in their testimony.
Here’s what you need to know:
E15 Safety
Either you can trust the 43 studies that show E15 does not show differences in “any performance category” when compared to the gasoline that nearly all drivers use today, or you can chose to believe the single study – funded by the American Petroleum Industry – that claims E15 damages car engines.
GHG Emissions
Either you can trust Argonne National Laboratory, Purdue University, the University of Nebraska, Michigan State University,Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Duke University, and the University of Illinois-Chicago–all institutions that have published work in just the past few years documenting the GHG benefits of ethanol compared to oil, or you can chose to believe a 2008 report that shows renewable fuel is worse than oil based on hypothetical emissions that have been shown to be overblown by at least nine more recent studies.
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