A Petroleum Industry spokesman says it’s been difficult for them to get reform of the renewable fuel standard and expects that difficulty to increase with the new Congress. Nebraska Ethanol Board Administrator Sarah Caswell is pleased with their assessment and says the RFS must be stable to be effective.

She says the EPA must take enough time to review small refiner RFS waiver requests and to only dole those out when the refiners have proven a hardship need.

She says if the refiner exemptions aren’t handled correctly it makes the RFS volume levels not worth the paper they’re written on.