Renewable Fuel Association leaders have written the EPA asking them to eliminate an old regulatory barrier that is impeding the growth in the use of E 15 and other high level ethanol blends.  RFA Senior Vice President (jeff) Geoff Cooper says the requirement keeps E 15 from being available all year.

 

EPA’s current regulation grants a volatility waiver to E 10 but not to other ethanol blends. Cooper says that’s created an uneven playing field which can be corrected by an administrative change.

 

He says by making that correction then all ethanol blends can be sold all year with no more impediments to summer sales of E 15.

 

Cooper says that making this change would not raise gasoline prices as by lowering the volatility of gasoline blend stock in the summertime would just add .006 per gallon in refining costs.