Federal renewable-fuel requirements and tax-credit rules are creating uncertainty over which feedstocks qualify for renewable diesel and how much those fuels will cost. The article says feedstock sourcing and refinery economics can affect fuel availability and refinery operating decisions.
Rules that favor or restrict particular feedstocks may shift refinery demand among vegetable oils and other inputs, affecting soybean-oil demand and renewable-diesel supply. The excerpt does not specify the final rules, so the price effect remains uncertain.
After 196 past neutral policy events, Soybean Oil moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (52% higher; middle half -1.6% to +2.0%), and -0.5% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.