Congress: interest in modifying the biofuel law could be reactivated

Congress: interest in modifying the biofuel law could be reactivated

October 6, 2024 – 13:10

It is a motorized initiative by Alejandra Vigo (Córdoba), Edgardo Kueider (Entre Ríos) and Carlos Mauricio Espínola (Corrientes).

A group of senators presented a project to modify the current Biofuel law with focus on increasing the mixing percentages, after the chapter referring to the theme was separated at the beginning of this year of the Base law.

It is a motorized initiative by Alejandra Vigo (Córdoba), Edgardo Kueider (Entre Ríos) and Carlos Mauricio Espínola (Corrientes), three legislators that integrate the flameful block the United Provinces, a space of good tune with the national government, but that It is also proposed to underpin a federal agenda.

According to the text, The minimum percentage of diesel and/or diesel oil would start at 7.5 percent (At the time of applying the eventual new regulations; it is currently 5) to take it to 15 percent in a period of two and a half years; In the case of gasoline, it must start at 13 percent to reach 15 in just over a year (It is currently 12). A little over a week ago the Mining, Energy and Fuels Commission was established, which remained in the hands of the Radical Flavio Fama (Catamarca).

In one of the interventions, the senator of the same Juan Carlos Romero (Salta), From the same block that Vigo, Kueider and Espínola, put the subject on the table to be treated with priority.

Although he took distance on some aspects of the original project and asked for the presence of the authors of the text, but also that of officials of the Ministry of Energy commanded by Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo. In that line, He threw a dart for the oil companies: “(which) the oil lobby that gives the face and comes to tell us why they have limited so much.”

The deregulation of the market that tried the Casa Rosada in the Original Base Law generated strong repudiation in the provinces producing biofuels, mainly, Córdoba and Santa Fe.

In fact, They formed a league with the rest of the territories that also contribute to national production. In the Chamber of Deputies there is also a similar project promoted by the Schiarettist deputy, Carlos Gutiérrez.

Source: Ambito

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