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House to Vote This Week on Bill to Allow Year-Round National Sales of E15 Gasoline
The House will consider stand-alone legislation to require year-round sales of E15 gasoline after the 2026 Farm Bill passed without the provision on April 30. The American Petroleum Institute backs the measure while GOP Reps. Scott Perry and Chip Roy oppose it, citing costs to consumers and strain on refiners. The vote comes as U.S.
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The House will vote this week on a bill to mandate the sale of E15 gasoline nationally year-round. The measure follows the House passage of the 2026 Farm Bill on April 30 without the E15 language. Amendment 289 to the 2026 Farm Bill was designed to expand year-round E15 sales nationally.
It was sponsored by Minnesota Republican Michelle Fischbach. The American Petroleum Institute supports the bill to expand E15 sales. API made a 6-figure digital ad buy last week in 15 key House districts touting the E15 bill.
GOP Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Chip Roy of Texas wrote an op-ed in The Hill opposing year-round E15. The two congressmen argued that year-round E15 isn’t “lower-cost fuel for consumers,” but a hidden tax and a straight-up gift to the corn-ethanol industrial complex.
Fully 1/3rd of America’s annual corn harvest is dedicated to making fuel. , according to the Energy Policy Research Foundation. The RFS has extracted roughly $164 billion from American drivers over the past decade.
The final mandated gallons of ethanol are being rammed into the market at an absurd effective cost of $770 per gallon according to the EPA’s own modeling. 7 billion in societal costs from the latest volume obligations.
U.S. Refined petroleum product stocks have plunged 45 million barrels. U.S. The Strait of Hormuz disruptions began at the end of February 2026.
U.S. refining sector already running flat-out to meet record export demand. The battle over the E15 mandate highlights a split between big refiners and independent operators who produce roughly half the fuel consumed in the United States.
