The Renewable Fuels Association is ready to work on educating California fuel retailers again, now that the E15 Clean-Up Act has been passed by the state legislature, paving the way to finally allow sales of the lower-cost, lower-carbon transportation fuel.

RFA’s Robert White says the bill, which allows retailers to use existing vapor recovery equipment to dispense E15 if the manufacturer of that equipment submits a statement of compatibility to the relevant state agencies, passed unanimously out of both the Assembly (56–0) and the Senate (34–0). “It was just exciting news that for a second time in 14 months, an E15 bill in California had no negative votes, unanimous two times in a row,” White said during an interview at Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa this week. It was this same time last year that the state legislature passed a bill to legalize sales of E15 immediately upon the governor’s signature, which has been held up by the equipment issue.

White says the fix will not go into effect until January 1, but that is just around the corner. “So on the heels of that next week is the CFCA summit where we’re putting on an E15 workshop,” said White. “So we’ll be gearing folks up for the coming year, teaching them again about the economics and why in a state that’s so short of liquid fuel, so high of fuel prices, how E15 can help immediately.”

Learn more in this interview.

Robert White, RFA Senior VP, Industry Relations & Market Development, comments on California E15
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