Senators Introduce Renewable Fuels Legislation

U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) recently introduced comprehensive legislation in Congress that will use alternative and renewable fuel technologies to greatly decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil.

Obama and Lugar’s bipartisan legislation, the American Fuels Act of 2006 (S. 2446), would take a four-step approach to reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. First, the legislation would spur investment in alternative fuels by increasing the production of cellulosic biomass ethanol (CBE) to 250 million gallons by 2012. It would also create an Alternative Diesel Standard that will require 2 billion gallons of biodiesel to be mixed into the 40 billion gallon annual national diesel pool by 2015. This proposal is modeled on the Renewable Fuels Standard, which has proved successful in increasing ethanol production and use. Second,

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