The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) sent a letter signed by 2025 Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit attendees to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, calling for an immediate fix for year-round E15.
“The time is now, E15 is the near-term demand driver that American agriculture needs at this crucial time,” said IRFA Executive Director Monte Shaw. “Maybe it was the frustration of being so close to having an E15 fix in the recent continuing resolution, only to have it snatched away in the last second that has exhausted Iowans’ patience. No more Iowa nice; we’ve been patient for a decade and we are done waiting.”
E15 saves consumers 15 to 20 cents per gallon at the pump. It has the ability to create demand for 5 to 7 billion gallons of additional ethanol over the next several years. Today, it is difficult to sell E15 during the summer months due to an unnecessarily restrictive federal regulation that treats E15 differently than other fuels. The federal legislation would remove the restriction and treat E10 and E15 the same.
The text of the letter stated: “Allowing year-round E15 not only increases consumer choice with lower cost, cleaner-burning options at the pump, it also supports U.S. farmers struggling with low agriculture prices. President Trump started the effort to guarantee year-round E15 in 2019 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Let’s work together to finish what President Trump started to enhance our energy dominance by growing American-made biofuels!”
A picture of the signed letter can be found here.
