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Low-carbon fuel standards increase prices. That reality is, however, politically inconvenient. Advocates of HB 1091, which would impose a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS), continue to pollute the discussion with silly claims in an effort to hide what is a simple truth.
Most recently, Climate Solutions published a two-page flier on the cost of the LCFS, purporting to show that it doesn’t increase costs. OK, they later say, it does increase costs but not much. Then they retreat to the claim that it may increase costs a significant amount, but oil companies should pay for it.
As we’ve noted before, the costs of an LCFS are not a controversy among any of the state agencies implementing the law. They all agree – as we show again below – that it increases costs significantly, so, it feels odd to once again plow this ground.