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Climate Change Campaign Turns To Fuel
By Mr Ethanol | September 18, 2007
NCTimes:
First, California lawmakers targeted the cars we drive in their campaign to curb global warming. Then they turned their attention to the power plants that produce our electricity.
Now they are taking aim at the gas we burn in our cars.
A few days ago, senators passed a law to require those who make and sell fuel in the state to provide, by 2020, a mix of fuels that pump 10 percent less carbon into the atmosphere than today’s blend.
The bill’s requirements could be met through a variety of strategies. Those include selling reformulated gasoline or diesel fuel that slashes carbon emissions, making alternatives such as ethanol, biodiesel and compressed natural gas widely available, and introducing hybrid gas-electric cars that can be plugged into wall outlets.
Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, the bill’s sponsor, said the precise solutions will have to be worked out by a state regulatory agency and refiners. But she said that residents of San Diego and Riverside counties should not anticipate having to make any major sacrifices.
“It’s a matter of shifting gears, so to speak,” Kehoe said, in a telephone interview Thursday. “And it needs to be a convenient choice for the typical Californian who just wants to be able to fill up their tank and drive to work.”
One likely outcome, she said, would be that ethanol and biodiesel would be much easier to find. Today, she said, the only station in the region providing those fuels to consumers is Pearson Fuels in San Diego.
The legislation, Senate Bill 210, is expected to be signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, converting an executive order he issued in January into a state law.
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