The annual debate over letting gas stations sell higher-ethanol fuel in summer is heating up again as industry groups await key decisions by the Biden administration.
Officials are weighing two possibilities to allow sales of 15 percent ethanol fuel year-round: a request by eight Midwestern states for a permanent waiver of summer restrictions, and an emergency measure to temporarily permit such sales throughout the country. Fuel that’s 10 percent ethanol, called E10, is standard nationally.
Biofuel groups partially cheered a Reuters news report, based on anonymous sources, that the administration is preparing to grant the states’ request but not make