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re: Trump increases biofuel quota in gas and diesel supply

Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:50 am to
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
10806 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:50 am to
Again, where does EPA get this rule making authority???? Hint: it comes from Congress.
Posted by LSU Patrick
Member since Jan 2009
77912 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:50 am to
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I swear, the collective IQ of the Panican crowd is room temperature


It really is. It's like they spend their lives looking for bad news and then freak out over things they don't fully understand..
Posted by ragincajun03
Member since Nov 2007
29229 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:51 am to
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it comes from Congress.


So he should be telling the farmers and the media that a previous Congress and President is who is delivering this great program and increase to them?
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476983 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:52 am to
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You realize Congress passed laws requiring this?

Whoa. We should revisit the DOGE era
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
10806 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:53 am to
I guess so. You got him now! Trump is guilty of false advertisement.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
63763 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:54 am to
Could the EPA lower the quotas?
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476983 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:54 am to
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That’s exactly what the administration is doing—setting the new minimum requirements.

Did Congress mandate these specific minimums?

quote:

I swear, the collective IQ of the Panican crowd is room temperature.

Holy shite
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
10806 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:55 am to
Congress didn’t pass laws requiring funding of fake NGOs. But of course you knew that. Auditing isn’t the same thing as administrative rule making.
Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
23019 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:56 am to
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
476983 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:58 am to
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Congress didn’t pass laws requiring funding of fake NGOs

Well you've certainly quit the attempts at pretending to be rational
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
24012 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 9:07 am to
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Farmers would lock step vote Democrat down ballot if they thought it would make them a couple more dollars.


Flip some of those republican senator for the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas and the dems will rule forever.
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
10379 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 9:49 am to
Cenex Harvest States is a large oil refiner owned as a Co-Op of farmers. Even they dont make biofuels and just refine crude. This is dumb. The government needs to get out of the biofuels business, but the EPA mandated this stuff for so long, that Big Oil is lobbying to get a ROI before mothballing these units.
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 9:50 am
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35539 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 9:51 am to
Not only should there be no quota, it should be banned.

There is no reason, beyond welfare for big ag, to put food product into our energy stream.

Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
40406 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 9:52 am to
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“It will come right out of the farms,” he said. “You voted for me. I will never forget that.”



Yes donald, but I voted for you too.

THis is a problem.
Posted by GTnerd
ATL Jawja baby
Member since Sep 2023
845 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:41 am to
“The Trump administration, as of March 2026, has finalized new, record-high biofuel blending requirements, setting the total obligations at 26.81 billion Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) for 2026 and 27.02 billion RINs for 2027. This represents a significant increase, with the EPA estimating a roughly 60% rise in biofuel and renewable diesel production compared to 2025 levels“
Posted by ragincajun03
Member since Nov 2007
29229 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:51 am to
But you don’t understand…a Congress two decades ago is forcing him to set these all-time high requirements and brag about it to the corn and soybean farmers.
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
91838 posts
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:52 am to
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That’s exactly what the administration is doing—setting the new minimum requirements. Minimum doesn’t actually mean a certain amount. I swear, the collective IQ of the Panican crowd is room temperature.


You’re spinning this like Trump and the administration had no choice in the matter - that this is the absolute least they could have done.

That’s simply not true. In fact, this rule is 8% higher than what the administration proposed it would be in June of 2025.
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