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‘The fatigue is real’: retailers push for federal action on year-round E15

Fuel retailers are frustrated by the lack of progress on E15 legislation.

Renewable Fuels Association CEO Geoff Cooper says gas stations and truck stops are growing tired of waiting on Congress to pass a year-round, nationwide standard.

“We’ve certainly heard that remark from the retailers and truck stop folks before, and I think there is a risk if we don’t get something done fairly soon, then everybody is going to go back to their own corners.”

Speaking to Brownfield at last week’s National Ethanol Conference in Orlando, he said a further patchwork of states offering year-round E15 is not the outcome fuel retailers or biofuel stakeholders want.

“Yeah, there’s a real chance that this group that has been tenuously held together over these last few years could splinter if we don’t get something done federally pretty soon. The fatigue is real.”

The congressional Rural Domestic Energy Council has missed multiple self-imposed deadlines to bring forward compromise E15 legislation and Cooper says time is running out.