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Fuels and political favors

05/07/2007
Political motivations for government action on renewable energy have roared into full view in the US. The sight isn’t pretty.Protests have emerged in Washington, DC, against a plan announced last month by ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods Inc. to use animal fat in the production of ultralow-sulfur diesel fuel. The companies earlier secured a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service that their process qualifies for a $1/gal tax credit that the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT) created for diesel made via thermal depolymerization of waste oils and fats. They plan to process about 1 billion lb/year of fat with hydrocarbon streams at ConocoPhillips refineries, eventually producing as much as...
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