Agri-Pulse reports:
Washington, DC — Lawmakers were laboring late Tuesday night to try to salvage ethanol legislation after language allowing year-round, nationwide sales of E15 was left out of a suite of spending bills released Tuesday.
The omission came “just days after ag and biofuel groups reached a fresh agreement with the American Petroleum Institute on a way forward with the proposed biofuel measure,” we reported last night.
As of Tuesday evening, House members were busy looking for a pathway for E15, which refers to 15% blends of ethanol with motor gasoline, up from the standard 10%.
Meanwhile, the corn lobby called on allies in Congress to make sure that this latest E15 attempt doesn’t fall apart at the last minute as it did in late 2024. Ethanol groups blamed that failure to pass the legislation on opposition from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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