Mid-Atlantic convenience store chain Sheetz kicked off the holiday season this week by reducing the price of its Unleaded 88, 15% ethanol blended fuel, to $1.99 a gallon. This promotion started Monday and runs through November 28, 2022 to help families save at the pump as they travel for Thanksgiving. The company offers Unleaded 88 at 368 store locations throughout …
Ethanol Making Thanksgiving Visits More Affordable
The cost of this year’s traditional Thanksgiving dinner may be 20 percent higher this year compared to last, and gas prices are up 30 to 40 cents a gallon, but ethanol is still helping families save money at the pump this holiday to visit friends and relatives. AAA predicts that 54.6 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home …
Ethanol Blend Rates Hit Record Levels in Summer 2022
The Energy Information Administration reports that this past summer, the price of fuel ethanol was lower than the price of the petroleum component of gasoline, which led to record-high fuel ethanol levels in gasoline sold in the country. “The fuel ethanol blend rate, based on our data going back to 2007, established a new record summer average of 10.5% in …
RFA Joins Ag Bioeconomy Coalition
The Renewable Fuels Association has joined the Ag Bioeconomy Coalition, a group founded earlier this year to advance federal policy initiatives that “foster growth toward an economy based on innovative bio-based products derived from agricultural commodities, including ethanol and other renewable fuels.” “With smart policy and targeted investment, the U.S. agriculture and bio-manufacturing sectors can provide practical solutions to today’s …
New Grants Support RFA Ethanol Safety Programs
The Renewable Fuels Association has again received grant funding to continue to support its safety education program through its work with TRANSCAER, a voluntary national outreach program that focuses on community preparedness for possible hazardous material transportation incidents. A $25,000 grant from the Federal Railroad Administration will support eight ethanol safety seminars and four “train the trainer” webinars for first …
Export Exchange 2022 Leads to $225 Million in Sales
Export Exchange 2022 last month in Minneapolis is already making bank for participants, according to surveys of overseas grain buyers who attended saying they purchased at least $225 million worth of grain and ethanol co-product. Buyers and end-users were surveyed after the conference to see if they had made any purchase agreements with sellers and if so, how much was …
RFA Spotlights Ethanol’s Carbon Reduction Benefits
The Renewable Fuels Association is leading the charge on a national and global basis to spotlight ethanol’s carbon reduction benefits and how it can play an even greater role going forward in the fight against climate change. As leaders from around the world are gathering in Egypt for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP27, RFA …
Biofuel Groups Urge Congress to Avoid Rail Strike
The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) joined nearly 200 organizations representing agricultural, food and renewable fuels industries last week in a letter urging Congress to act quickly to prevent a rail strike and service shutdown on November 19, the deadline for unions and railroads to finalize an agreement. “A strike or lockout combined with existing challenges in the rail system, at …
RFA Calls GAO Report on SREs “Flawed and Obsolete”
The head of the Renewable Fuels Association slammed a report from the General Accounting Office on small refinery waivers (SREs) released this week that was requested over three years ago as both flawed and obsolete. “You simply can’t make this stuff up,” said RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper. “In the summer of 2019, a bipartisan group of renewable fuel …
Biofuel Groups Praise EPA Reversal of Refinery Exemptions
The Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, the American Coalition for Ethanol and National Farmers Union this week filed a motion to intervene in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to deny 69 petitions from refineries seeking small refinery exemptions (SREs) from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for one or more …