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Pregnant... or think you are? Call:1-877-257-1084 or Locally Call: 1-812-354-2814 • Free pregnancy testing • Free counseling and info. on pregnancy options. • Confi dential counseling for women & men who are suff ering from post-abortion syndrome. • Residential Care • Health and assistance referrals. • Training and education. • Assistance in getting baby and maternity clothes washpcc@sbcglobal.net www.washingtonpregnancycenter.com Renewable fuels standard The United States Environ- mental Protection Agency (EPA) released Renewable Fu- els Standards for this year and next year, which significantly affects local agriculture. The EPA sets and changes these standards periodically based on real world conditions and expectations in the market- place, trying to strike a bal- ance between forcing indus- tries to blend renewables into the fuels they produce and al- lowing those industries a real- istic opportunity to remain in business given supply and de- mand in the market. Renew- able fuels include convention- al biofuels like corn starch ethanol and advanced biofu- els like almost anything else. Without delving too deeply into the process of complying with the standards, a compa- ny creates a renewable identi- fication number (RIN) by cre- ating a gallon of biofuel that meets the standard. This in- tangible RIN, once blended with gas or diesel fuel, is sep- arated from the fuel and be- comes able to be used to sig- nify compliance with the stan- dard, traded to another com- pany that needs the RIN to signify compliance with the standard, or banked for use later when that company may need to signify compliance with the standard. Right. As a local example, Valero and Green Plains are in the corn starch ethanol business, so they create a lot of RINs. How- ever, in the case of Valero, the company has a significant oil refinery business in Texas, and the ethanol plant in Mt. Vernon, or its eleven other eth- anol plants, are not going to produce enough RINs for the company as a whole to meet the standard. Valero then pur- chases RINs from the market to make up the difference. The EPA has raised stan- dards for 2022, which will increase demand for biofu- els. Industries that produce biofuels or cre- ate a net surplus of RINs bene- fit from this an- nouncement. In- dustries that buy RINs are not as enthused. Some industries need RINs and cannot stay in business if forced to either produce to buy those RINs. Those indus- tries might be small enough to qualify for a Small Refin- ery Exemption, which allows a company to avoid having to follow the standards. Country- Mark qualifies as a small re- finery and has used exemp- tions in the past. The new EPA announcement includes language about working to de- ny all small refinery exemp- tions. CountryMark used the words "financial ruin" earlier in the year to describe their business without small refinery ex- emption. In this case, the Renewable Fuel Standard chang- es are great for renewable ener- gy companies, like Green Plains. They are a mixed bag for companies with renewable en- ergy refineries and oil refin- eries, like Valero, and they are ruinous for oil refineries, particularly small ones, with no renewable energy compo- nents, like CountryMark. One more reason to keep an eye on the national news for local im- plications. For more information, con- tact Purdue Extension of- fice in Posey County via hschmitz@purdue.edu or 812- 838 -1331. A-6 Wednesday, December 15, 2021 The Press-Dispatch 812-743-2382 303 Breckinridge Rd, Monroe City | perryshvac@gmail.com Craig Perry Vance Perry HEATING & AIR-CONDITIONING Perry ' s LLC Serving the area since 1950. Perry ' s Perry ' s Stock Up on Warm and Cozy. Years of comfort. Years of savings. The year's best offer. 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