Ethanol producer not optimistic about E15 “policy failure” getting fixed before summer

Erik Huschitt with Larry Lee at NEC2022 Photo: Cindy Zimmerman

An ethanol producer says he doubts Washington or the states can restore year-round E15 use in time for the summer driving season. 

Erik Huschitt with Badger State Ethanol in Monroe, Wisconsin tells Brownfield America had the one-pound waiver approved by the prior administration, “And then, we have a change in the Supreme Court level that doesn’t acknowledge that change, and so here we are now all of three months away from driving season and we’re all scrambling trying to catch back up and policy just is not going to be able to act fast enough.”

And Huschitt says investments made to make E15 available are not being fully utilized.

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