Posted on 03/12/2019 6:09:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a plan to allow more ethanol in the nation's gasoline supply Tuesday, after a long wait that had Cabinet officials sparring over the timing of the plan.
“Consistent with President Trump’s direction, EPA is working to propose and finalize these changes by the summer driving season,” said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
The proposed regulations would allow 15-percent ethanol fuels to be sold year-round, including in the summer. The high-ethanol fuel is currently banned by the EPA for sale during the summer driving season, which begins June 1, because of its high fuel volatility rating, which can hurt engine performance and can contribute to smog, especially during summer.
Trump promised the rule change last year to Iowa farmers and corn ethanol producers as part of a grand bargain with oil refiners. The deal is meant to resolve problems with the nation's Renewable Fuel Standard program, requiring ethanol and other biofuels to be blended at increasing amounts each year.
Wheeler wants to gather feedback swiftly on the rule to get it into effect by Memorial Day. He said he will hold a public hearing at the end of the month to begin the process.
The proposed action announced on Tuesday would also help reduce the cost for refiners in complying with the EPA's renewable fuel program, which costs individual refiners hundreds of millions of dollars annually to meet the requirements to blend ethanol in the nation's gasoline supply.
The EPA's proposed action will modify how the credits that refiners must use to meet EPA ethanol targets are bought and sold in order to deter price manipulation.
Ethanol credit prices have experienced major fluctuations in recent years from pennies to more than a dollar in a short period of time, leading to refiners paying more each year...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Yeah, you would think that after twenty years experience with ethanol, engine manufacturers would learn how to build an engine that could accept ethanol.
But no, they can't.
Something I learned right here on FreeRepublic.
We know it is true because the Washington Examiner says it? There is no chance they are projecting liberal desires?
America runs on corn and petroleum. Corn is everywhere and not only in gasoline. Read a few food labels and see for yourselves. Farming is monoculture and the big crop is corn. The breadbasket has morphed into the corn highway.
I could not disagree more vigorously with the administration on any issue than I do on this.
What a shame.
SEF?
This is one area in which I disagree with POTUS. BTW, how did we EVER get along without the EPA?
We only buy non-ethanol gas, when we have a choice. I think some states have outlawed it, though.
It was one of his campaign promises.
It was one of his campaign promises, so this should come as no surprise to anyone.
“America runs on corn and petroleum. Corn is everywhere and not only in gasoline. Read a few food labels and see for yourselves. Farming is monoculture and the big crop is corn. The breadbasket has morphed into the corn highway.”
Yes, and oddly enough, it goes through people and engines basically the same way that it went in.
Corn is for eating and drinking. Gasoline is for getting to the store to buy tortillas, pop corn, and Old No7. IMO.
*** SEF? ***
4 Cycle Small Engine Fuel
Trump has lost me on this one.
Ethanol is a scam, corporate welfare, farm welfare and as a fuel it sucks.
There is one place here in the TX Hill Country which sells non ethanol unleaded. It is four bucks a gallon. Ouch.
Well, we are running out of oil. Or were. Never mind.
Then let them burn all of the damn stuff they want to in the corn belt.
I don’t disagree with that, but it was indeed a campaign promise the President made. Back during the early days of the primary it was something we argued over intensely among other things...but this is small potatoes as he did keep his promises on big things like judges...which some of us were not sure of at the time (to put it mildly).
DISASTER.
This is bullshit.
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