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Opinion: Alternatives to the RFS

Green Car Congress

Recently, the Energy Resources Center made headlines by saying the EPA’s shift on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would equal adding 1 million more passenger vehicles on the road. The RFS has been controversial from its beginnings in the early 2000’s. Earlier post.) The oil industry would seem to be understandably upset about it.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

Before greenhouse gasses became a global concern, before we came to terms with the inevitable limits of fossil fuels, natural gas would have been a logical fuel alternative to petroleum. For reasons political and economic, cars and trucks and busses remained tethered to petroleum. As if Americans weren’t confused enough already.

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