[Alberta's Child]

This has nothing to do with fuel composition and everything to do with eliminating the annual supply chain disruption and gasoline price spike that comes when refineries are forced to change to the summer fuel blends.

President Trump tries to do the same thing in 2019 — and for the same reason.

[mmichaels1970]

This has nothing to do with fuel composition and everything to do with eliminating the annual supply chain disruption and gasoline price spike that comes when refineries are forced to change to the summer fuel blends.

Agreed. Using regulation to force an entire product line to change based on arbitrary dates can't be good as far as down-the-line costs are concerned.

I'm conflicted here. I don't like ethanol. I don't like excessive government regulation. Biden is waiving a regulation for a product I don't particularly like to attempt to reduce the price of a product I need.

Still contemplating this one.

[DSH]

President Trump tries to do the same thing in 2019 — and for the same reason.

And the notice-and-comment regulation that the Trump EPA promulgated to effectuate this change was struck down by the D.C. Circuit as contrary to the plain language of the Clean Air Act (specifically, CAA sec. 211(h)) in July 2021.

Biden's bullsh*t "waiver" is equally unlawful. Got a problem with that, take it up with Congress. The Clean Air Act is crystal clear on the matter, as the court found. The statutory restriction cannot be changed or "waived" merely by executive action. Biden's EPA knows this, as did Trump's EPA in its time. But orders are handed down -- motivated by purely political considerations, the law be damned -- everybody salutes, and there you are.