Last week, Representative Cheri Bustos (D-Illinois) introduced the Next Generation Fuels Act. The legislation would establish a new 98 octane standard for gasoline and would require that octane sources in motor fuel result in at least a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to unblended gasoline.  This idea has been floating around since 2018 when the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment held a hearing in April of that year regarding how high-octane fuels (HOF) could replace the RFS. In November of 2018, during the lame duck session of the 115th Congress, representatives John Shimkus (R-Illinois), who has spent the past few years working on an RFS reform plan that all sides could accept,...

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