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The blend wall is "an issue, but you’ll see that we lay out a variety of scenarios for the various fuels that make up biofuels to be able to meet the volumes that we’re proposing," EPA acting ...
Bloomberg reports that ethanol consumption reached 10.2 vol% of gasoline consumption last week, causing the much-debated ethanol blend wall to be breached.
USDA predicts ethanol blend wall is near, future of industry hinges on EPA's E15 decision. Ethanol has been blended with gasoline for years now in a fuel typically called E10 (which is made with ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged that a "blend wall" has been reached for motor fuels with 10% ethanol as it released its proposed 2014 biofuel quotas under ...
Meeting its legally required deadline, the EPA finalized the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volume obligations on Monday. While the ruling falls short of the worst-case scenario, it ...
Increasing the blend wall to E15 means more demand for corn, which means higher prices and more money in farmers’ pockets — or maybe it just offsets some of their tariff-related losses.
That extra potential ethanol volume obliterates the blend wall argument, but oil companies argue no one wants E15, and “prove” it by banning its sale.