Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Adrian Polansky announced yesterday that Kansas will adopt regulations for at-the-pump blending pumps which will allow the distribution mid-level (E-20, for example) ethanol blends throughout the state.
According to the Wichita Eagle, “Polansky said information and data gathered during the trial run ‘confirm that blending pumps can consistently and accurately dispense a range of ethanol blends from a single pump.’”
The pumps will carry warning labels for consumers who don’t own flex-fuel vehicles:
To help warn consumers who aren’t driving a flexible fuel vehicle, pumps dispensing anything above E10 must have a bright orange label that states, “For use in flexible fuel vehicles only.“
This is great news. The more ethanol blends are available, the more they will be used
Louisiana Enacts the Most Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation in the Nation
Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is the first state to enact alternative transportation fuel legislation that includes a variable blending pump pilot program and a hydrous ethanol pilot program.
Field-to-Pump
The legislature found that the proper development of an advanced biofuel industry in Louisiana requires implementation of the comprehensive “field-to-pump” strategy developed by Renergie, Inc.:
(1) Feedstock other than corn;
(2) Decentralized network of small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities;
(3) Variable blending pumps in lieu of splash blending; and
(4) Hydrous ethanol.
Renergie looks forward to working closely with the Obama-Biden administration to:
(a) reduce U.S. dependency on imported oil;
(b) repeal the ethanol import tariff;
(c) maximize the environmental benefits of ethanol-blended transportation fuels; and
(d) create jobs in rural areas of the United States by growing ethanol demand, specifically hydrous ethanol demand, beyond the 10% blend market.
Please feel free to visit Renergie’s weblog (renergie.wordpress.com) for more information.
Brian J. Donovan Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 6:41 am