CFDC News & Events

America’s energy challenge is no longer primarily about crude oil supply—it is about refining capacity and fuel production bottlenecks. Even with ample domestic oil production, the system is struggling to turn crude into the diesel and gasoline the economy actually uses. The most effective response is not simply more drilling or more imports, but a structural shift in how America makes and uses transportation fuel: a national high-octane fuel standard that pairs E30 with widespread hybrid vehicles. Extending supplies, lowering costs, reducing emissions, creating jobs, and providing a lifeline to US agriculture: its all there for the taking.

Raise your hand if you are tired of hearing about E15. Moses wandered the desert for 40 years, but we are catching up. It has been nearly 20 years since the initial application for approval of 15 percent, and 10 years seeking resolve of the RVP situation.

At this point in time we have no clear picture of how the Iranian situation will end up but one thing is for certain– we in the US will remain dependent on oil for our transportation needs. If the public doesn’t like high gasoline prices, they would like them a lot...

Quick quiz: name a federal program or policy that costs taxpayers nothing, costs consumers nothing, provides value and regulatory relief to a heavily regulated business, provides value to the consumer in the way of  lower fuels cost, strengthens American energy...

While it is technically incorrect to say the Biden administration mandated EVs, the emission and efficiency standards were so stringent that it appeared to be the only solution. But as they say, appearances can be deceiving and this was a classic example. There were...

As usual there is a lot of angst in middle America these days with uncertainty over RFS volumes, small refinery waivers, bird flu, budget cuts, and looming trade wars. But the greatest threat is the potential for a full-blown farm crisis. Many of us were in the...

We know that ethanol stands alone as a proven additive to gasoline providing clean octane to the 270 million light-duty vehicles on the road today. E15 is a great start but to maximize that opportunity we need to be pushing for much greater blend volumes. We see in...

Lost in the overwhelming noise of budget and personnel cuts, inflation and war is the devastating effect the reimagined federal government is having on the environment. This directly impacts biofuels that are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and...

Speaking before the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C, today, Clean Fuels Development Coalition (CFDC) Executive Director Doug Durante said his primary objective for the year was simply to get more ethanol into gasoline.

“We just spent four years where the metric of value was carbon reduction, and now we are being told by the White House and Republican Congress they don’t care about that anymore. So, if the emphasis is on domestic energy and economic development, ethanol still brings that to the table and in so doing save American agriculture from what could be a true crisis.”

We can make a high octane E30 fuel using today’s blendstock and provide a premium grade at regular unleaded prices, resulting in substantial savings to consumers and creating demand for billions of bushels new corn demand.”

Speaking before the World Ethanol and Biofuels Conference in Brussels, Belgium last week, the Clean Fuels Development Coalition’s Doug Durante said Aviation and Marine Applications may be future market opportunities, but the gasoline market presents the greatest untapped potential to expand ethanol demand.

Durante told delegates that the highest value and the highest return for ethanol is to provide clean, low carbon octane for the growing premium market and at current volumes we are only scratching the surface.