ADM, Biofuel Supporters Say EPA Underestimates Use of Higher-Ethanol Fuels
by Chris Prentice (Reuters) Archer Daniels Midland Co and other supporters of biofuels on Thursday said U.S. regulators grossly underestimated the amount of higher-ethanol fuel blends at pumps when requirements for next year’s use of renewables were proposed.
The comments came as oil companies, biofuels producers and farmers gathered at a Kansas City, Missouri, hearing to weigh in on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest plan for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires the agency set annual targets for use of ethanol and other renewable fuels in gasoline.
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Oil companies have said it is not realistic to push ethanol use past about 10 percent of gasoline without an overhaul. Most gasoline in the United States consists of about 10 percent ethanol.
There are over 600 stores setting up infrastructure for higher ethanol fuel blends, said Sean Miller, senior ethanol trader with ADM.
High-volume stores, like Mapco and Sheetz, are putting in capacity to sell ethanol blends “reflective of higher” E15 volumes than EPA is estimating, Miller added.
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Over 200 retailers sell E15 and another 3,400 sell E85, but some 2,200 stores are now installing equipment to sell those fuels, a representative from the Renewable Fuels Association said on the sidelines of the hearing.
That would mean exponential growth in the availability of the fuel as cars are changing as well.
But that remains a relatively small portion of some 150,000 gas stations nationwide. READ MORE and MORE (Biofuels Journal) and MORE (Iowa Biodiesel Board) and MORE / MORE / MORE / MORE / MORE includes AUDIO (Energy.AgWired.com) and MORE (Biofuels International) and MORE (ABC News) and MORE (Nebraska Radio Network) and MORE (KTIC Radio) and MORE (The Auto Channel) and MORE / MORE / MORE (American Coalition for Ethanol/Ethanol Producer Magazine)
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