Barry Rietz
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tomherrick":vxqb46gt said:..perhaps help our nation to not make the same mistake twice... ...or, four times in a row... :roll:
Matt Gurnsey":1ibqtyt0 said:As I understand it, Federal Law requires that the gas companies use a certain number of gallons of Ethonal a year, and that number goes up each year, so while they might like to offer non ethonal fuel (and make more money on it) they are under the heel of the federal regs.
To compound the issue, while the amount of required Ethonal goes up each year, total fuel use is down from a few years ago, so E15 may be forced upon us for the oil companies to meet the mandated amount of ethonal usage.
US Energy Information Administration":1ibqtyt0 said:EPACT2005 requires that the use of renewable motor fuels be increased from the 2004 level of just over 4 billion gallons to a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons in 2012, after which the requirement grows at a rate equal to the growth of the gasoline pool [19]. The law does not require that every gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel be blended with renewable fuels. Refiners are free to use renewable fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, in geographic regions and fuel formulations that make the most sense, as long as they meet the overall standard. Conventional gasoline and diesel can be blended with renewables without any change to the petroleum components, although fuels used in areas with air quality problems are likely to require adjustment to the base gasoline or diesel fuel if they are to be blended with renewables.