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Trump administration announces plan to put more ethanol in gasoline
Washington Examiner ^ | March 12, 2019 08:38 PM | John Siciliano

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: corruption; epa; epaethanol; ethanol
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To: E Pluribus Bellum
It also kills your engine.

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.

21 posted on 03/12/2019 6:27:41 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We know it is true because the Washington Examiner says it? There is no chance they are projecting liberal desires?


22 posted on 03/12/2019 6:28:45 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand. Isaiah 32:8)
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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.


23 posted on 03/12/2019 6:28:49 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I could not disagree more vigorously with the administration on any issue than I do on this.

What a shame.


24 posted on 03/12/2019 6:28:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: sockmonkey

SEF?


25 posted on 03/12/2019 6:30:10 PM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is one area in which I disagree with POTUS. BTW, how did we EVER get along without the EPA?


26 posted on 03/12/2019 6:33:03 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: jdsteel

We only buy non-ethanol gas, when we have a choice. I think some states have outlawed it, though.


27 posted on 03/12/2019 6:35:33 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This nonsense has to end. We are not short of oil and the reason for doing this does not exist. Just another reminder it is almost impossible to cut spending and subsidies.
So Trump wants to abolish the Legal Services Corporation, an entity that sued congress to continue its funding and existence. Do it, do it, and with it end base line budgeting, drain the swamp and just do it for God sakes!!!! When will the madness stop?
28 posted on 03/12/2019 6:36:29 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

It was one of his campaign promises.


29 posted on 03/12/2019 6:38:06 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
President Trump needs a vacation. All the vicious attacks and special interests are starting to get to him. A tanned, rested, and ready President Trump wouldn't even have considered this.

It was one of his campaign promises, so this should come as no surprise to anyone.

30 posted on 03/12/2019 6:42:14 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Clutch Martin

“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.


31 posted on 03/12/2019 6:49:29 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Corn is for eating and drinking. Gasoline is for getting to the store to buy tortillas, pop corn, and Old No7. IMO.


32 posted on 03/12/2019 6:50:25 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: MortMan

*** SEF? ***

4 Cycle Small Engine Fuel


33 posted on 03/12/2019 6:54:02 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump has lost me on this one.

Ethanol is a scam, corporate welfare, farm welfare and as a fuel it sucks.


34 posted on 03/12/2019 6:58:51 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

There is one place here in the TX Hill Country which sells non ethanol unleaded. It is four bucks a gallon. Ouch.


35 posted on 03/12/2019 6:59:57 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Well, we are running out of oil. Or were. Never mind.


36 posted on 03/12/2019 7:01:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Wuli

Then let them burn all of the damn stuff they want to in the corn belt.


37 posted on 03/12/2019 7:02:57 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Equine1952

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).


38 posted on 03/12/2019 7:03:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DISASTER.


39 posted on 03/12/2019 8:07:08 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is bullshit.


40 posted on 03/12/2019 8:08:28 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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