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The Trump administration published an emergency exemption on Monday to allow the sale of a more ethanol fuel mixture to sell this national summer this summer, saying that it would add fuel food during the driving season of the United States and reduces costs.
This decision will likely benefit producers of biofuels and corn farmers because it should extend the market for their products. The two industries have pressure for sales at the national level all year round with the higher ethanol mixture, which is called E15, because it is made up of 15% ethanol.
A gas pump displays the price of the E15, a gasoline with 15% ethanol. (Reuters)
“This decision to allow the Summer Sale of the E15 will provide immediate relief to consumers, will offer more choices to the pump and stimulate the demand for cultivated corn, transformed and used here in America,” said US Secretary for Agriculture Brooke Rollins.
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The government is currently restricting E15 petrol sales during the summer months due to environmental concerns concerning SMOG, which, according to the biofuel industry, are not founded.
The government is currently restricting E15 petrol sales during the summer months due to environmental concerns about SMOG. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The emergency derogation will come into force on May 1. The environmental protection agency, which has issued the exemption, said that it was planning to extend the renunciation until it no longer deems it necessary. The EPA has issued similar derogations for the summer in recent years.
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“With geopolitical conflicts that turn the energy markets around the world, we applaud President Trump and the Administrator (Lee) Zeldin for having acted quickly to combat potential fuel shortages and help maintain a gas price cover this summer,” said Geoff Cooper, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, a Biocarburant Trade Group.
Earlier this year, the EPA said that it would confirm a date of implementation of April 28 for a request for governors of the Midwest states to authorize sales all year round of the E15.
This decision will likely benefit producers of biofuels and corn farmers because it should extend the market for their products. (Images Robert Nickelsberg / Getty / Getty Images)
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During the action of Monday, the EPA said that it had deleted provisions that would otherwise have made the E10 petrol sold in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Dakota from the South and Wisconsin to meet a stricter standard than conventional essence in other regions of the country.
