An important goal of the renewable fuel standard program is to promote fuel diversity and lower consumer and environmental costs of transportation fuels.

Growth in the use of advanced biofuels fuels far short of what Congress anticipated when this program was expanded in 2007.

Our overdependence on these fuels has made consumers and our economy vulnerable to price spikes and supply disruptions at various times in the past.

So I worked on that program for a while out there.

Thank you, Congresswoman Matsui, for the question.

If there was an opportunity to talk about performance standards, we are more than willing to have that conversation.

What those waivers do is they transfer wealth from rural America into the pockets of refinery owners.

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