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EPA Way Off on Biofuel Carbon Score:

The EPA plans to regulate the green house gas emissions of producing and using biofuels - by comparing them against producing and using petroleum based fuels. Using a bogus land use theory, outdated information, underestimating and overestimating, inconsistent methods, and omissions – the EPA has done its best to make biofuels look much worse than they actually are, and to make petroleum based fuels look far better than they actually are.

Until now, we have overlooked the biggest EPA Omission. For the burning of biofuel vs petroleum fuel, the EPA only measures the quantities of the final emissions. In the end use, EPA ignores where the carbon-CO2 came from.

We all know that a gallon of biofuel displaces what would have been another gallon of petroleum fuel. In other words, biofuel made from “Recycled CO2” displaces “Newly Mined” crude oil, which would have added New Carbon to the atmosphere.

Aside from energy inputs, burning a gallon of biofuel does not release any new CO2 into the air. It releases recycled CO2, which Does Not add any new carbon to the atmosphere.

In contrast, burning a gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel releases “NEWLY MINED” Carbon brought up from deep underground. Burning petroleum fuels causes New Carbon, in the form of additional CO2, to accumulate in the atmosphere.

If the EPA was correctly comparing the end use of biofuels vs petroleum fuels, this must have a huge impact on their carbon scores. But instead, the EPA makes no distinction between the release of “Recycled CO2” vs “Newly Mined CO2” brought up from deep underground.

When you burn petroleum based fuels, and when you burn biofuels, you Do Not get the same carbon result. One adds more and more New CO2 to the atmosphere, and the other recycles CO2 that was already there.

The EPA has totally omitted this from their end-use comparative analysis.