Consumer Energy Alliance

Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created to help expand the dialogue between the energy and consuming sectors to improve understanding of energy security, more effectively develop and use both renewable and oil & gas energy resources in an environmentally conscious manner, create sound energy policy and maintain stable energy prices for consumers.

Help Defeat a Low Carbon Fuel Standard!

The Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is being sold to the American public as a way to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels so that tailpipe CO2 emissions can be reduced. But the fact is that the carbon emissions from transportation fuels are a constant and an LCFS is designed to force fuel switching away from gasoline and diesel to lower-carbon fuel options (such as natural gas, electricity and cellulosic ethanol) that are not yet commercially available.

In order to reduce the carbon intensity of the transportation fuels pool without having alternative sources available, retailers will be forced to discriminate against higher-intensity fuels such as Canadian oil sands and Mexican heavy oil and rely even more on light sweet crude from the Middle East. While oil producers from some of the least-stable regions of the world may benefit under an LCFS, American consumers would be stuck paying higher prices at the pump.

A national LCFS, currently being considered in the US Senate, would have devastating consequences – including raising gasoline and diesel prices by as much as 80% within five years and up to 170% within 10 years, discriminating against our North American trading partners and increasing U.S. dependence upon unstable and unreliable petroleum suppliers. What’s worse – an LCFS will not even reduce global carbon emissions. Instead of reducing high-intensity crude production, it will merely redirect those supplies to overseas markets.

Write your Senator today and tell him or her that a nationwide LCFS will hammer our economy and do nothing to help the environment. Time is of the essence; the Senate may consider legislation on a nationwide LCFS this summer!

To learn more about the economic and strategic risks associated with an LCFS, visit www.secureourfuels.org and read the recently released report commissioned by CEA on the economic impacts of an LCFS.

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Dear Senator,

As you may know, efforts are underway in Congress to enact a national Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). I strongly urge you to vote against any bill or amendment containing such a proposal. Legislative proposals currently under consideration in the United State Senate would have devastating consequences to our state.  A national LCFS threatens our energy security, and would result in price increases for families and small businesses during a time of great economic uncertainty and raise global carbon emissions.

A Low Carbon Fuel Standard will raise the cost of transportation fuels, which will impact every American consumer by delaying our economic recovery and exacerbating sky high national unemployment. Additionally, it will force drivers to unknowingly become more dependent on oil from countries that are not friendly to the United States.

An LCFS would have serious consequences for America’s long-term energy security by discriminating against fuels from our North American energy trading partners such as Canada and Mexico and increasing our dependence on unstable regions of the world to meet our energy needs - jeopardizing our energy security.

Additionally, a national LCFS mandate would raise gasoline and diesel prices by as much as 80% within five years and up to 170% within 10 years, which will cost American households upwards of $2400 a year by 2025. Further, this legislation would cause the loss of 2.3 – 4.5 million jobs nationwide and result a 2-3% decline in U.S. GDP by 2025 – a staggering $750 billion hit to the American economy.
 
Instead of bringing down energy costs at home and boosting our economy, this mandate would drive costs up, hurting every single consumer and small business in our state and throughout the nation. What’s even worse – an LCFS won’t even reduce carbon emissions. Instead of halting the production of carbon intensive fuels, it will simply redirect them to overseas markets and raise global carbon emissions.

If our national objective is to become less dependent on foreign oil, to reduce carbon emissions, and to foster the development of alternative and renewable fuels, this is a step in the wrong direction. I strongly urge you to oppose any efforts to advance a Low-Carbon Fuel Standard.

Thank you for your consideration. I will monitor your votes on this critical issue.

Sincerely,

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