The American Energy Alliance opposes the Bentz amendment #2 (renumbered from 241) to H.R. 7567, the 2026 Farm Bill. This amendment would expand the scope of the already costly and destructive Renewable Fuel Standard program.
This amendment would expand the scope of products eligible for RFS subsidies. Every expansion of product eligibility leads to future higher RFS volume mandates. The RFS already adds as much as 30 cents a gallon to fuel costs, with increasing costs to come from the recently finalized volume mandates for 2026 and 2027. Increasing these compliance costs by adding expanded subsidies to the program is precisely the opposite of what is needed at a time of increasing prices at the pump. Congress should be scaling back the RFS, not expanding it.
A NO vote on amendment #2 to H.R. 7567 is a vote in support of free markets and affordable energy. Should a vote on this amendment occur, AEA will include it in its American Energy Scorecard.