It has produced "green" gasoline from a synthetic crude oil made from algae.
It is volatile and unstable but can be blended with other hydrocarbons to produce commercial gasoline.
Aside from the cost of meeting the new regulations, it takes more crude to produce gasoline with reduced vapor levels.
The nation's capacity for producing gasoline from oil has meanwhile continued to fall.
Spring is also the season when refineries retool, producing slightly less gasoline.
Located along the Mississippi river, this plant was producing gasoline in commercial quantities by 1948.
But the administration tempered that criticism today by giving small refineries two extra years to produce cleaner gasoline.
If they could produce synthetic gasoline that good, why can't we?
Even if it will cost more to produce gasoline in the future, gasoline being sold today was made with cheaper oil.
Refineries that produce gasoline in the United States are operating at close to capacity.