RFS reform vote seen separate from US debt ceiling

摘要

Washington—Ethanol advocates downplayed the prospects that Republican leaders in Congress would attach Renewable Fuel Standard reforms to the must-pass US debt ceiling package. Recent reports have speculated that Representative Eric Cantor, the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives, would use the debt ceiling legislation as a means of fast-tracking changes to the hot-button biofuels blending mandate that oil companies have wanted repealed.