This Senate resolution expresses support for designating May 2025 as "Renewable Fuels Month." It lists reasons renewable fuels matter, citing ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuel. The text gives numbers on jobs, economic value, production, exports, and estimated greenhouse gas reductions for these fuels.
The resolution asks the Senate to support the designation and to recognize the listed benefits of renewable fuels, such as emissions reductions, lower fuel prices, rural economic support, and less reliance on foreign adversaries. No publicly available information on new laws, programs, or direct changes for individuals is provided in the bill text.
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Proponents say renewable fuels: reduce greenhouse gas emissions (the text reports ethanol reduces emissions by 44–52% versus gasoline and advanced biofuels reduce emissions by at least 50% versus petroleum diesel); help air quality (the text says biodiesel can emit up to 80% less particulate matter); support jobs and rural economies (the text reports more than 55,810 direct ethanol jobs in 2024, 258,089 indirect and induced jobs, $28,300,000,000 in household income, and over $53,000,000,000 added to GDP from ethanol; biodiesel and renewable diesel together had a $42,400,000,000 economic impact, supported 107,400 jobs, and contributed $5,800,000,000 in wages); add value to crops (a typical dry mill ethanol plant adds nearly $2, or 55%, of value to each bushel of corn; biodiesel production uses more than 1,000,000,000 pounds of soybean oil per month); increase fuel supply and exports (the text reports ethanol supplemented about 630,000,000 barrels of imported crude oil in 2024 and ethanol exports reached 1,930,000,000 gallons in 2024).
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