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May 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda To: ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATIONAL EDITORS
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Fuel Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) responded today to the Environmental Protection Agency‘s May 22 decision to continue mandating cellulosic biofuels that do not exist.
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“EPA‘s decision is arbitrary and capricious. We fail to understand how EPA can maintain a requirement to purchase a type of fuel that simply doesn’t exist. Congress created a waiver provision in the RFS to address this exact situation,” said AFPM President Charles T. Drevna. “If EPA isn’t going to grant a waiver based on the agency’s own data that shows the fuel is not available, when does the agency think it is appropriate to exercise its waiver authority? Today’s ruling simply upholds EPA’s imposition of a backdoor gasoline tax on American consumers.”
The American Fuel Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Petroleum Institute and Western States Petroleum Association jointly filed a petition on January 20, 2012, requesting that the Environmental Protection Agency waive the 2011 cellulosic biofuel volume mandate in its entirety due to a non-existent domestic supply of the fuel. EPA denied this petition on Tuesday, even though the Agency’s own monthly summary of available volumes of cellulosic biofuels shows that no cellulosic biofuel was produced in the United States in 2011.
The volume of cellulosic biofuels that refiners were required to use in for 2011 was 6 million gallons. Even though no cellulosic biofuels were produced, refiners were forced to pay $6.8 million to EPA for waiver credits needed to comply with the mandate. AFPM and API also sent a petition to EPA in February 2011 to reconsider that mandate, but EPA waited 15 months to deny that petition as well.
About AFPM
AFPM, the American Fuel Petrochemical Manufacturers (formerly known as NPRA, the National Petrochemical Refiners Association) is a trade association representing high-tech American manufacturers of virtually the entire U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, as well as the petrochemicals used as building blocks for thousands of vital products in daily life. AFPM members make modern life possible and keep America moving and growing as they meet the needs of our nation and local communities, strengthen economic and national security, and support 2 million American jobs.SOURCE American Fuel Petrochemical Manufacturers
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