The Year That Wasn't
December 12, 2014
BY Bob Dinneen
Like the “Who Shot JR” season of “Dallas,” the U.S. EPA apparently thought 2014 was just a dream that never happened. When the agency awoke in November and announced that it would not publish the renewable volume obligation (RVO) rule for 2014 until sometime in 2015, refiners and ethanol producers alike were left to watch reruns of government dysfunction. But the year did happen, and quite a year it was. Ethanol production and blending broke records. Exports picked up. E15 and E85 sales increased. And the first cellulosic ethanol gallons were produced. So here, in satiric tribute to the year that wasn’t, is our annual in and out list.
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OUT Computer models predicting ILUC |
IN Multiyear RVOs EPW Chairman Inhofe D3 RIN production RFA advocacy app Rail delays Ethanol going global E85 pump photo contests Record corn production and yield Big Food Complaints about $4 corn E15 warranty coverage for two-thirds of new vehicles Real world data showing no ILUC Saudi oil production quotas Congressional RFS hearings AFPM RVO Lawsuit Prime the Pump 2016 presidential campaign Fuels America pro-RFS ad campaign RFA Chairman Randy Doyal |
Author: Bob Dinneen
President and CEO,
Renewable Fuels Association
202-289-3835
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