This has nothing to do with preferring ethanol over oil as an ingredient in our motor fuels. This measure is being taken to avoid the costly and highly disruptive process that refineries must undertake to transition from “winter” to “summer” fuel blends. If you go back over the last 20+ years, you’ll see that there was almost always a steep hike in fuel prices right around early May as this transition took place. This is what they’re trying to prevent with this executive order.
This reads like straight-up propaganda.
They have to do that with ethanol anyway.
Or they did (been a bit since I played in that field) because in the winter time they send a lot of the light cuts into the fuel.