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Opinion: Alternatives to the RFS

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It’s also a political lightning rod given the stagnation of fuel consumption matched with accelerating ethanol blending. The expansion of the RFS in 2007 goes far beyond just replacing MTBE with ethanol as the required fuel oxygenate (and avoiding lawsuits ). Carbon Intensity. Let’s look a few here.

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AT&T to Deploy More Than 15,000 Alternative-Fuel Vehicles in Fleet Over Next 10 Years

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While there are no easy solutions to the challenges facing our nation, this investment is a first step on our part to help boost other industries while at the same time encouraging wider use and production of efficient vehicles and domestic fuel alternatives. Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

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In one way, the program in question—the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—is a relic from a bygone era. lawmakers established the RFS in 2005 and expanded it in 2007, well before solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles became the stalwarts of decarbonization they are today. In 2016, a U.S. Now, it is 2022. says Nunes.

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