13% Ethanol Blend

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, and Republican Govs. John Hoeven of North Dakota, Mike Rounds of South Dakota and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota want the administration to take several steps to make ethanol blends more available and promote wind energy.

Touting the benefits of alternative fuels, the governors pressed the Environmental Protection Agency to approve a waiver allowing a higher percentage of ethanol of 13 percent to be blended into gasoline. The U.S. currently allows gasoline to contain 10 percent ethanol.

Culver said the EPA would "take a very serious look" at the waiver and he was optimistic they would allow the waiver to promote biofuels.

The governors said it would help the U.S. meet a renewable fuels standard that will require 36 billion gallons of biofuels to be blended into gasoline by 2022 and benefit rural economies instead of increasing dependence upon foreign oil.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D96HMB580.htm
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http://www.dtnprogressivefarmer.com/dtnag/common/link.do?symbolicName=/ag/blogs/template1&blogHandle=ethanol&blogEntryId=8a82c0bc1f3e98a0011fa9690d89047f

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