CEO DATELINE - Report: Oil group seeks help in electric vehicle fight
CEO DATELINE - Report: Oil group seeks help in electric vehicle fight
- February 1, 2021 |
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WILLIAM EHART
The Biden administration's drive for more electric vehicles has pushed at least one fossil-fuel group to reach out to old rivals to defend use of the internal combustion engine, according to news agency Reuters.
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But the effort by the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers has gotten chilly responses from Renewable Fuels Association and the National Corn Growers Association, Reuters reported Jan. 28. The groups have been at odds in the past over ethanol content in fuel.
AFPM told Reuters it had contacted state and national representatives of the corn and biofuels industries to seek support for a policy that would promote production of cleaner fuels and block electric vehicle subsidies.
After meeting with some corn and biofuel lobbyists in mid-January, AFPM is hoping for another meeting this month.
"This whole idea was going to have to take a whole lot of time to gel, but we have made some progress," AFPM SVP for Federal and Regulatory Affairs Derrick Morgan told Reuters.
RFA CEO Geoff Cooper told Reuters the group had not yet decided whether to attend AFPM's proposed meeting.
"We weren't born yesterday and we're not going to let the oil industry play us like a fiddle," he said. "They have a long history of pushing surrogates and proxies to the microphone to do their dirty work and we're not interested in that."
NCGA CEO Jon Doggett distanced his group from the idea. "I have nothing to do with any refining groups. We haven't talked," he told Reuters.
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