Archive for April 2025
Comparing Theoretical and Market Renewable Identification Number (RIN) Prices Part 3 – Anticipating Changes in Tax Subsidies
Read other blogs in this series – Comparing Theoretical and Market RIN Prices: Figure 1 (whose title says Fig. 2) shows a copy of Figure 2 extracted from the published Irwin-McCormack-Stock (IMS) article that defines D4T and the ATTRACTOR model. In Part 2 of this series, I said this chart: Shows that the D4 RIN…
Read MoreMidwest States Pose New Challenges for Gasoline Supply
With summer gasoline season upon us, refiners and gasoline distributors are now supplying the more expensive, low volatility summer gasoline grades that cause pump prices to increase in summer. This year, they include a new low volatility grade that is being supplied for the first time to motorists in several Midwest states. This is the…
Read MoreMy Top Three Takeaways From the Bloomberg Farm, Food, and Fuel Summit 2025
Number 3 — Confusion reigns At a conference in September, 2024, a panelist said, “Biofuels is a difficult place to work” At the time, that struck me as a concise understatement about the biofuels business environment. The same feeling was in the air at two other conferences in January covering California’s biofuels regulations, and again…
Read MoreComparing Theoretical and Market Renewable Identification Number (RIN) Prices Part 2 – How Well Do RIN Market Prices Track With Economic Theory?
Read other blogs in this series – Comparing Theoretical and Market RIN Prices: How well do RIN Market Prices Track With Economic Theory? That question is best answered by the 2 charts below. Figure 1 (whose title says Fig. 2) shows a copy of Figure 2 extracted from the published Irwin-McCormack-Stock (IMS) article that defines…
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