# Political Football Season Returns with RFS  : The Daily Digest

> The National Biodiesel Board CEO says EPA is considering 52 newly filed small refinery exemption petitions, with refiners raising the count to 58 covering 2011 to 2016. He adds that prior exemptions destroyed over 500 million gallons of biodiesel demand and the gap petitions could remove another 300 million gallons or more.

- Date: 2020-07-20 · published 2020-07-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/51969-political-football-season-returns-with-rfs-the-daily-digest
- Commodities: [Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBO.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Potential loss of biodiesel demand from exemptions is bearish for soyoil and supports weaker soybean oil use in biofuels.

## Read by commodity

- SBO: bearish ▼
- SOY: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SBO | 2017-12-08 | [Palm oil beat down vegetable oil prices  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12715-palm-oil-beat-down-vegetable-oil-prices-the-daily-digest.md) | -0.7% | +0.5% |
| SBO | 2018-05-21 | [Waiver Wire: Why is the biofuels industry up in arms about oil refinery waivers?  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64918-waiver-wire-why-is-the-biofuels-industry-up-in-arms-about-oil-refinery-waivers.md) | +1.2% | -4.6% |
| SBO | 2025-01-15 | [Revisiting the RIN Cliff - farmdoc daily](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15155-revisiting-the-rin-cliff-farmdoc-daily.md) | +1.2% | +3.1% |
| SBO | 2020-03-30 | [‘Unprecedented’: Sizing up the federal farm rescue - POLITICO](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54119-unprecedented-sizing-up-the-federal-farm-rescue-politico.md) | -1.6% | -6.9% |
| SBO | 2017-07-06 | [The Renewable Fuel Numbers: 8 takeaways from EPA’s 2017 draft, from the industry in their own voices  : The Daily Digest](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69855-the-renewable-fuel-numbers-8-takeaways-from-epa-s-2017-draft-from-the-industry.md) | +0.8% | +3.0% |
| SOY | 2025-08-22 | [The Reconciliation Farm Bill: Top Five Most Problematic Changes to Farm Policy, #3 - farmdoc daily](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23309-the-reconciliation-farm-bill-top-five-most-problematic-changes-to-farm-policy-3.md) | -0.6% | -0.9% |
| SOY | 2019-10-29 | [Proposal for deforestation labeling catches fire at the Commission – POLITICO](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56581-proposal-for-deforestation-labeling-catches-fire-at-the-commission-politico.md) | +0.5% | -3.1% |
| SOY | 2017-05-02 | [FiBL - Report on the EU Common Agricultural Policy and deforestation](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71041-fibl-report-on-the-eu-common-agricultural-policy-and-deforestation.md) | -0.3% | -4.8% |

## Sources

- biofuelsdigest.com: https://biofuelsdigest.com/political-football-season-returns-with-rfs/

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