The Renewable Fuels Association used the opportunity this week of the National Ethanol Conference in San Diego to partner with Pearson Fuels and offer free fill-ups of E85 fuel for flex fuel vehicles (FFVs) driven by military veterans, active-duty servicemembers and spouses with an ID on Monday. The event put a focus on RFA’s new Veterans for Renewable Fuels initiative started last year.
In addition to offering free E85 fuel to the 240,000 veterans living in the San Diego area, all drivers were invited to stop by for a tank of E85 fuel for a discounted price of $1.85 per gallon.
RFA Senior VP, Industry Relations & Market Development Robert White, himself a veteran, says the event was very successful. “What was fun to watch was the older FFVs come in, the people that really needed a little help in the budget,” said White. “We got to talk to them and remind them of the connection with the veterans and renewable fuels.”
Besides White, RFA CEO Geoff Cooper and Environment, Health & Safety Director Justin Schultz, are military veterans, in addition to a good percentage of the industry as a whole. The percentage of ethanol industry workers who are vets is triple that of the national workforce and higher than the petroleum fuels and general energy workforce.
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