By CFDC’s Douglas Durante, Opinion Contributor, The Hill, July 8, 2018 —

With a final rule on fuel economy likely to come out in the near future, a considerable amount of attention has centered on higher octane fuels as a pathway to increased efficiency in automobiles, both for legacy vehicles currently in use and for new designs. One argument in the debate, that oil refiners are offering an olive branch of higher octane to the ethanol industry, presents an inaccurate picture of what is described as a decades-long political conflict between “big corn” and big oil. (Read more here)