The Renewable Fuels Association is asking EPA administrator Gina McCarthy to equalize the volatility requirements for both E 15 and E 10. RFA Senior Vice President Geoff Cooper says E 10 gets a volatility exemption during the summer months that E 15 doesn’t get so retailers have to stop selling E 15 during the summer. He says the regulatory barrier needs to be lifted.
Cooper says the result of having fuel retailers stop selling E 15 during the summer is that it stifles introduction of the fuel.
Cooper adds that slow market adoption of E 15 has unnecessarily complicated compliance with the Renewable Fuel Standard and led EPA to accept the oil industry’s blend wall concept in the proposed rule for 2014 renewable volume obligations.