Thanks for the chance to offer written feedback relating to the proposed Low Carbon Gasoline Customary (LCFS) amendments. Development Power is the world’s largest affiliation of biofuel producers, representing 97 U.S. crops that every yr produce greater than 9.5 billion gallons of renewable gasoline; 119 companies related to the manufacturing course of; and tens of hundreds of biofuel supporters across the nation. Collectively, we’re working to convey higher and extra reasonably priced decisions on the gasoline pump to customers, enhance air high quality, and defend the surroundings for future generations. We stay dedicated to serving to our nation diversify our power portfolio in an effort to develop extra inexperienced power jobs, decarbonize our nation’s power combine, maintain household farms, and drive down the prices of transportation fuels for customers.
Development Power has beforehand submitted intensive feedback demonstrating the important position low carbon biofuels and better biofuel blends can play in assembly California’s formidable local weather objectives. As we now have beforehand famous, biofuels have been among the many largest contributors to the success of the LCFS program to this point and are poised to proceed to take action with acceptable updates to this system.
Approval of E15
We applaud the California Air Assets Board’s consideration of the position E15 can play in lowering the state’s greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions whereas additionally offering a value financial savings alternative for California drivers. Customers have embraced E15’s popularity as a extra environmentally useful, extra reasonably priced gasoline. For the reason that US EPA accepted E15 in 2011, at which period there have been zero retailers providing it, its availability quickly expanded to now 3,400 retail websites in 32 states. Since then, drivers in America have relied on E15 to drive 100 billion miles.
As producers of probably the most scalable feedstocks for SAF manufacturing, we admire the Board’s consideration to improvement of this key market by way of its proposal to take away the exemption for intrastate jet gasoline. We encourage CARB to proceed to work with SAF producers, biofuel feedstock producers, and airways to proceed to hunt methods to speed up use of those necessary fuels to assist decarbonize the aviation sector.
Thanks for the chance to offer enter on the April tenth, 2024 workshop. The LCFS Program is a vital software to addressing local weather change, and we stay up for working with CARB to make sure the position of biofuels in making California’s gasoline combine extra sustainable and assist the state obtain its progressive local weather objectives by way of the expanded use of bioethanol.
