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To: From: Sent: Subject: William Fagan[wfagan111@yahoo.com] Dravis, Samantha Thur 5/18/2017 12:25:33 PM Re: Help Protect Refiners Jobs-Changing the "Point of Obligation" Thank you for the email. Sent from my iPad > On May 18, 2017, at 6:22 AM, William Fagan <wfagan111@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Samantha Dravis, > > The time is now to help prevent a massive loss of good-paying American jobs. The EPA currently implements the Renewable Fuel Standard in a way that makes ail U.S. refiners responsible for ensuring that certain levels of renewable fuels are blended into gasoline, even if they do not have capabilities to do such biending. > > This nonsensical set-up allows large integrated oil companies that blend more fuel than they refine and big convenience store gasoline chains (who do much of the blending) to collect valuable credits for the renewable fuel they blend into the pure gasoline they get from refineries. Independent refiners, who do little or no blending themselves, then end up purchasing those credits in order to demonstrate compliance with a process they have little control over. Small and independent refiners are at risk of going offline due to this backwards regulation, with 75,000-150,000 U.S. workers potentially impacted. > > Please, help save our jobs and make this right. Please move the point of obligation for the RFS in a way that fixes this inequity. > > Thank you. > > William Fagan > 1534 Apple St > Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania 19061 17cv1906 Sierra Club v. EPA - 6/22 Production ED 001523 00008854-00001