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LCFS Amendment Tales: Chapter 2

January 6, 2022

  On December 7th, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held their second workshop for the current round of potential regulatory amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The first workshop, Chapter 1, was held more than a year earlier over two days – October 14-15, 2020. CARB staff use these workshops with several...

Policy

Are EVs More Fuel Efficient Than Gasoline and Diesel Cars?

January 5, 2022

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), California Air Resources Board (CARB), and EV promoters often claim EVs have three times higher fuel economy than their gasoline counterparts. This is like saying eggs come from grocery stores, which is true, but ignores the fact that eggs originate from laying hens before being shipped to and sold...

Wisdom from the Downstream Wizard

Stillwater’s Take on the SPR Announcement – Update

November 24, 2021

President Biden announced last week that the government would release 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Fuel reserve in a move to reduce gasoline prices. This action created significant commentary and we at Stillwater thought it was an opportunity to dig into the issues and provide some answers to questions folks are asking....

Policy

CCS Incentives for Additional Fizz 

November 8, 2021

  Recent months have seen several announcements of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects in various stages of development. While commercial CCS operations have limited history, deployment of this technology is seen as a feasible way to eliminate significant volumes of CO2 emissions. In this article, we will take a brief look at existing U.S. incentives for CCS applications in the transportation fuel arena. ...

Technology Development

Flash Report: 2Q2021 LCFS Data Show 167,000 MT Net Credit

November 1, 2021

On Friday morning, October 29th, CARB posted the second quarter 2021 data for the LCFS program. The 2Q2021 report gives us insight into the credit bank situation more than a year after COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were put into place in California. In today’s flash report, we offer a quick look at the second quarter data....

Policy

The California Oil Spill – What’s Next?

October 20, 2021

We here in Southern California are experiencing our first significant offshore oil spill in some time. It now appears that crude oil, estimated to be about 600 barrels (or about 25,000 gallons), escaped from a fracture in the San Pedro Bay Pipeline which connects Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Platform Elly to Long Beach. Investigations and surveys continue during the cleanup efforts, after which we should know the range of the spill which may include the OCS.   The Bureau of...
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