Ford backs ethanol industry’s drive towards E15 ethanol blends

In Michigan, Ford’s group vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering has supported the ethanol industry’s effort to gain a waiver to distribute E15 ethanol in non-flex fuel cars, a move that would increase the US market for ethanol overnight to more than 17 billion gallons from today’s 11 billion.

Industry strategy is for the EPA to issue a “sub-sim” ruling that E15 blended gasoline is substantially similar to E10 blends, thus removing a requirement for costly and time consuming vehicle testing by EPA.

The letter from Ford VP Susan Cischke to POET CEO Jeff Broin was obtained and reported by Kiplinger’s Biofuels Market Alert, said “Ford endorses efforts to increase base level blends up to E15 and collaborate with key stakeholders to overcome challenges with introducing these higher levels of ethanol.”

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