NEBRASKA - OIL & GAS

摘要

Reducing reliance on foreign oil and reducing emissions of global warming pollutants and other forms of air pollution are just two reasons frequently given for developing renewable sources of energy, including ethanol and other biofuels. Many states, including Nebraska, have promoted production of ethanol and other biofuels for several years. The cause for renewable fuels got a further boost last year when Congress enacted, and President Bush signed into law, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-58, 119 Stat. 594 (2005). This act amended the Clean Air Act, adding a new section 211 (o), establishing a national renewable fuel program, commonly known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. This program sets a renewable fuels standard that requires the volume of renewable fuels blended into gasoline sold or dispensed to consumers in the United States to increase from 4 billion gallons in 2006 to 7.5 billion gallons by 2012. Congress set a default standard in the act that requires 2.78 percent of gasoline to be renewable fuel.