"If we can do that in a month, where we can come back and say, let us at least get the schedule and so we will know where things are going and give you enough time to be able to lay that out, that would be very helpful to us to get some level of predictability."
"We need to get back, and I think no matter what our view of the wisdom of the RFS is, if it is a law, we expect it to be administered in a way that Congress intended."
"I would remind everyone, especially when we are discussing corn-based ethanol, if there is anything that is clear in the law, it is clear that corn-based ethanol is a decreasing percentage of what is ..."
"Could the entire requirement be produced overseas?"
"In 2014, CBO, when they studied it, said if the mandate went away on corn-based ethanol, their study said 13 billion gallons would continue to be used."
"While there are lots of folks experimenting with switchgrass and wood and with stalks and with algae and other great ideas, so far, that is actually not a technology that exists."
"How are you trying to split the two there, to say that this part can basically be used in El Paso, Texas, and Southern Arizona year round but everywhere else, it is not going to be used year round?"
"Importing is importing. At that point, we are still not energy independent, of working in that direction."
"I really appreciate you being here and this ongoing conversation."
"If this was about protecting the environment and American energy options, was the intent... how that affects the actual amounts and the targets."
"As we are looking on the horizon here, 2022 is not that far away anymore."