The President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association says farmers and the fuel industry need the Biden administration to decide now if they will grant another summertime E15 emergency waiver.
Geoff Cooper says, “We’re getting to crunch time.” He tells Brownfield that waiting too long to issue the waiver impacts consumers and the entire supply chain. “If we don’t have an answer, retailers, marketers, and blenders, the entire supply chain is going to move ahead with the operating assumption that E15 will not be allowed this summer, so if the administration has plans otherwise, we need to hear that pretty soon.”
Cooper says on May 1st, every terminal that blends gasoline with ethanol needs to be in compliance with summer-grade gasoline specifications, and not knowing if there will be an E15 waiver forces the supply chain to plan as if there will be no E15 blending waiver.
