Baird co-sponsors bipartisan bill for year-round E-15

Monday, July 19, 2021
Jim Baird

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Indiana Fourth District Congressman Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) has joined a bipartisan group of Congressional biofuels leaders as an original co-sponsor to H.R. 4410 – the Year-Round Fuel Choice Act. This piece of critical legislation for Rural America allows for the year-round sale of low-carbon E15 fuel blends following a Washington ,D.C., circuit court’s decision to block a rule by President Trump’s Administration that allowed these sales.

“E15 is a high-quality fuel that provides drivers a higher octane at a lower cost while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and boosting demand for American corn instead of foreign oil,” Congressman Baird said. “This decision is a blow to Hoosier farmers and the American driver – we must stand up to EPA bureaucrats in supporting low carbon fuels that give consumers choice and build demand for Indiana corn. I’m proud to join my colleagues in this important effort.”

As a member of the House Agriculture Committee and the House Biofuels Caucus, Congressman Baird champions the beneficial impacts agricultural biofuels have on climate change mitigation, vehicle performance, and the financial stability of West Central Indiana communities and farmers.

E15 is a gasoline-based fuel blended with up to 15 percent of ethanol made by distilling Indiana-grown field corn.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates the evaporative emissions (Reid Vapor Pressure or RVP) of auto fuels under the Clean Air Act; though a 1992 amendment to the act allowed for a one-pound variance in the pressure of fuels blended with up to 10 percent ethanol, it does not account for higher blends.

After years of unwillingness by EPA bureaucrats to make the needed changes to the act, President Trump directed a rulemaking in 2019 to extend this pressure variance to E15 – a July 2, District of Columbia circuit court ruling overturned his action. H.R. 4410 – the Year-Round Fuel Choice Act would amend the Clean Air Act to insert the words “or more” to the 10 percent blend waiver.

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  • “ E15 is a gasoline-based fuel blended with up to 15 percent of ethanol made by distilling Indiana-grown field corn.”

    Does he have to pay for these campaign ads?

    -- Posted by Koios on Tue, Jul 20, 2021, at 8:43 AM
  • Indiana Congressman promoting Indiana corn.

    Call the FEC!

    Hunter selling finger paintings from the Whitehouse lawn to anonymous buyers for half a million

    ...yawn...

    ...nothing to see here citizen...

    ...move along...

    -- Posted by direstraits on Tue, Jul 20, 2021, at 11:55 AM
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    The government is saving us from itself??

    They conspire to steal our authority via laws, only to pass more laws to look like they are granting us something special that was originally ours to begin with.

    Governments are not benevolent. Ever.

    -- Posted by dreadpirateroberts on Tue, Jul 20, 2021, at 9:01 PM
  • LSL theology requires not supporting an idea that could be good for society unless LSL politician gets the credit.

    -- Posted by beg on Wed, Jul 21, 2021, at 7:42 PM
  • LSL, lol, dude you are obsessed. Without this LSL strawman your life would be pretty boring huh?

    -- Posted by BJCP96 on Wed, Jul 21, 2021, at 11:26 PM
  • Ethanol destroys fuel systems in older vehicles. It doesn’t do much of anything for the environment. I wonder how much financial interest the congresspeople promoting it have in corn and farms.

    -- Posted by techphcy on Sat, Jul 24, 2021, at 4:51 AM
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