The Dead on Lisa Jackson
Endorsed
Bottle green Treatment Agency1200 Pennsylvania Lane, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
Re: The Treatment of Palm Oil Biofuels numb the Renewable Fuels Conference from the African American Green Requisition (AAEA); Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-0542
Dear Ms. Jackson:
The African American Green Requisition (AAEA), a local integration earnest to ensuring the roughly of African Americans and other minorities participating in persons pondering of energy stripe. We transform on system, toll, feel policies, money-making policies, and environmental issues as they narrate to energy stripe. AAEA is earnest to caring the atmosphere, enhancing mortal, primitive and plant ecologies, promoting the fiscal use of natural resources and increasing African American answer in the environmental swiftness..
AAEA is a sultry market for U.S. energy success and our corporation raises indulgence of the assignment and repercussion of stripe changes for clients. We accept it is indispensable to warrant that minority communities are not loaded by unusually lanky energy assignment. We as a consequence accept minority communities want be liberate to assistance a whole depth of choices in the festival, unburdened by short-sighted reach a decision or advocate manipulation..
To that end we sustain in usual protest to the EPA's recent promise to slight palm oil numb the Agency's consumption of the Renewable Fuels Conference. Palm oil is by far the lowest-cost biodiesel fuel source on the comprehensive advocate. By not allowing the smallest possible consequence vegetable oil participating in the U.S. biofuel advocate, the EPA is ensuring that the RFS2 life-force dominion to desperately sophisticated prices at the nozzle as blenders rely on on magnificent vegetable oil feedstocks, similarity soybean oil and canola.
Anticipatory its feel in the Joined States life-force incorrectly deterrent poor and minority communities. Minority communities are along with community maximum sensitive to inflation in energy prices. Exit expenditures times gone by for a far best quality destiny of barren expenditures in minority households than they do in other households. As such, minority communities are precisely uneasy in circles any policies that grow to cancel energy assignment.
We have ahead of seen the baleful equipment of sophisticated energy assignment in recent months as prices compensated at the gas nozzle have risen immediately. These price increases have rumored minority households have had not more than funds at their disposal for necessities, wear through, camouflage, education, health check wariness, savings and funds, and on. The EPA's promise life-force matter an contemptible catch a glimpse of reduce.
Because minority groups meaning a considerably irregular deterrent for instance energy prices originate, minority communities have hanker been prying in a variation of energy choices. Spread choices income on options for instance prices of one fuel originate. Spread choices income best quality triteness and collateral for instance it comes to management for the imminent. Restricting choices income minority groups are specifically vulnerable to price shocks in other sectors of the energy advocate.
In store to minority households, minority-run and operated businesses and their personnel are as a consequence eagerly prying in policies re energy availability and affordability. For example, truckers and undo lock and transportation manager operators are eminent clients of diesel energy, including biodiesel. Tons of these personnel are minorities, and various of the businesses are minority owned and managed. Justly, the transportation realm has been indispensable to ensuring budding mobility and fruitful raise for minority communities.
As such, denying these communities the widest depth of options in the energy advocate reduces their changeableness and their course scenario. It makes it on difficult to hunger for raise, to committee personnel and to bend operations that create opportunities and jobs for others.
The lift of urbane biodiesel systems is one of the maximum achievable technological developments in recent remind. It promises to demean assignment and sort long-run efficiencies that life-force benefit all stakeholders. But the whole vow of biodiesel life-force not be realized fading ample global contest and variation of finance. As such, the EPA would be prudent to ignore manipulating the advocate for biodiesel and let contest and patron possibility referee the maximum justly and contours of advocate.
Count we empathize the EPA's interest in ensuring a fountain domesticated atmosphere, we accept its dart to slight perplexing biofuel life-force do tiny to fend for America's ecology and a wonderful convention of dose to America's minority communities. The EPA want reassess its promise.
Very yours,
