In arguing that U.S. ethanol producers are upset by the
recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lower the
number of gallons of biofuels refiners are required to use in 2016, William
O’Keefe and Jane Van Ryan completely miss the point in their Dec. 14 blog post
“Ethanol producers and politics, looking for trouble.”
The industry’s objection to the EPA’s final rule has little
to do with the numbers. Rather, U.S. ethanol producers have objected to the
methodology the EPA used in straying away from the statutorily imposed blending
requirements.
