10-17 IAN EPA Biodiesel

 EPA’s Latest Action to Increase Use of Biodiesel

According to the  Idaho Farm  Bureau Blog spot,the Environmental Protection Agency set the 2013 volume of biodiesel products required to be included in diesel fuel markets at 1.28 billion gallons. 

The action comes under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which established the second phase of the Renewable Fuel Standards program. EISA specifies a one- billion-gallon minimum volume requirement for the biomass-based diesel category for 2012 and beyond. It also calls on EPA to increase the volume requirement after consideration of environmental, market and energy-related factors. The final action follows careful review of the many comments and additional information received since EPA proposed the volume last spring.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack  said “Today, we are importing less foreign oil than we have in nearly two decades and we are creating jobs by producing more of our energy here at home during a plant tour of Iowa’s AGP Biodiesel. Well, he might have toured the Grand Teton Vodka distillery and listened to the words of Lea Beckett: “What we call the heads  are the low volatile alcohols. They are 95% alcohol when they come off the still. You can run that through a fuel filter and then mix it with diesel fuel for tractors  and it gives you better starts in cold weather.”