Sentences with phrase «ethanol blending requirements»

The Governors of Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and North Carolina have petitioned EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to waive the mandatory ethanol blending requirements established by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply for hardship exemptions from the RFS ethanol blending requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000 tons of biomass per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel per day.

Not exact matches

Because companies are able to abandon the oxygenate requirement, many are turning to ethanol blends.

stevepostrel — and what's wrong with a 10 % blending rate of ethanol for octane and oxygenate requirements?

The proposed action would not affect corn or other ethanol production and blending requirements, despite growing problems with incorporating more ethanol into gasoline.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering scaling back legal requirements on the use of ethanol next year amid complaints from refiners that statutory mandates would exceed their ability to blend it into fuels without putting engines at risk.

... Oil industry proponents have said that the escalating requirements of ethanol to be added would force them to sell fuel blends exceeding 10 percent or export gasoline, a phenomenon known as «hitting the blend wall.»

That's what we draw from EPA's requirements for levels of corn ethanol and other renewable fuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supply.

The agency is currently working on regulations for the oil and gas sector, and is finalizing new annual regulations for the nation's ethanol mandate and renewable fuel blending requirements.

API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters EPA is right to use its waiver authority to set the requirements below the original congressional mandate, calling it an acknowledgment of the «market limitations of the ethanol blend wall» — the amount of ethanol that can be safely blended into the fuel supply as E10 gasoline that's standard across the country.

Greco said API asked EPA to set the volume requirements no higher than 9.7 percent of gasoline demand to help avoid the blend wall and to protect strong consumer demand for ethanol - free fuel.

With EPA last week proposing ethanol - use requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher - ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.