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On the recordJune 21, 2016
Well, the point I am trying to make is the estimates that were used when we passed the expanded RFS in 2007 were gasoline volumes and diesel volumes going up, and in fact they are not.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton highlights discrepancies between past estimates and current gasoline and diesel volumes.

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