(NAFB.com) – The Texas Corn Producers, Texas Sorghum Producers, and National Sorghum Growers have filed a petition in the Fifth Circuit Court to review fuel economy test procedures. The procedures are in the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles. The rule lays out EPA’s “audacious” electric vehicle mandates to which the agency expects automakers to respond by making 69 percent of new vehicles electric or plug-in hybrid by 2032. This move comes with a large price tag for Americans: some $870 billion in vehicle technology costs alone. The groups say buried inside the hundreds of pages in the mandate is a specific regulation setting fuel economy test procedures that arbitrarily and illegally penalize ethanol- and liquid-fueled vehicles. In turn, that ultimately penalizes the corn and sorghum farmers who contribute to U.S. ethanol production. The groups say EPA hoped no one would notice.