It’s perplexing why we can’t get this done as API supports E 15 now.. see paper above as to why.. because they can make $$$.

https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2025/12/04/liquid-fuels-groups-announce-progress-on-e15-small-refinery-exemption-reform 

WASHINGTON, December 4, 2025 — The American Petroleum Institute (API) today joined organizations representing ethanol producers, oil refiners, fuel marketers, travel plazas, truck stops and convenience store retailers to express the need for long-term policy certainty across the transportation fuel sector. In a letter to President Donald Trump, the organizations urged policymakers to advance legislation in support of a stable, efficient fuels marketplace

"Legislation allowing the year-round, nationwide sale of E15 would improve fungibility and substantially reduce many of the complexities that arise for our industries as we operate in a national marketplace," the organizations wrote.

API previously urged congressional leadership to adopt a more balanced and up-to-date approach to E15 legislation given recent changes in the fuels landscape.

The letter also urges the White House to support legislative action providing lasting certainty to this issue and reforming the Small Refinery Exemption (SRE) program.

"The current SRE structure has encouraged a system of winners and losers that distorts the marketplace, creates instability, and ultimately, hurts consumers," the organizations wrote. "A more consistent and narrowly applied SRE structure would create a far more predictable regulatory environment." 

Other signatories on the letter included Growth Energy, National Association of Convenience Stores, NATSO, Representing America's Travel Centers and Truck Stops, Renewable Fuels Association, and SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) represents all segments of America’s oil and natural gas industry, supporting nearly 11 million U.S. jobs. With approximately 600 members, API companies produce, process, and distribute the majority of the nation’s energy. Founded in 1919, API has developed over 800 standards to enhance operational and environmental safety, efficiency, and sustainability.

It’s the small refiners and their representatives who are pushing back.. claiming ethanol costs the taxpayers.. false.. or hurts consumers.. also false.  Ethanol needs a level playing field.. as it will compete and win if given a chance.

Again the US was ramped up when Covid hit.. liquid fuels collapsed.. ethanol plants shut down.. leaving us with a mountain of corn.. which was needed as Putin went into Ukraine.

Ethanol can be a price shock absorber.. a natural “set aside” as it buys its way into the fuel mix.. or.. if a short crop.. prices it’s way out.. reducing the governments crop subsidies in the process.. so yes.. it save the government money.

Recent prices..

 

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