María Elvira Salazar: “I urge my colleagues to figure out a way for us to move forward with the renewable fuels standard we in the Senate…”

“I urge my colleagues to figure out a way for us to move forward with the renewable fuels standard we in the Senate embrace because it is the right way to move forward with an RFS. When you look at many of the concepts we have dealt with in terms of growing our energy independence, the fact is the renewable fuels standard is key in terms of how we get there. We worked long and hard in the Energy Committee to come up with the concepts included in the Energy bill. In my mind, when I look at the Energy bill, which is being discussed in its final forms in the negotiations between the House and Senate, there were five pieces to that bill. I believe we can get to a point where we have a bill that becomes a final and good energy bill, which passes the Congress and gets signed by the President. The biofuels program, which at its heart is the RFS amendment Senator Domenici was talking about, is something that is essential and a key component to having a good energy package.”