Fuel producers dependent upon petroleum
Fuel producers would not respond because they have become almost completely dependent on petroleum, which supplies 96% of all transportation fuels.
They cannot easily find low-carbon alternatives. Even corn ethanol is only slightly better than gasoline.

Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, and co-leader of the University of California study of the proposed low-carbon fuel standard.
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Fuel producers dependent upon petroleum
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