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The waiver takes effect Sept. 1, two weeks before the summer control season ends, and could add hundreds of thousands of barrels per day to domestic supply
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The Environmental Protection Agency issued a temporary emergency fuel waiver Thursday that allows the sale of winter-grade gasoline beginning Sept. 1, effectively ending the summer-blend requirement two weeks early in an attempt to expand domestic supply and lower prices at the pump.
The waiver covers E10 gasoline — fuel blended with 10% ethanol — and permits it to be sold at a higher evaporation rate than federal rules ordinarily allow once temperatures rise, the EPA said. The agency said the move could boost domestic gasoline supply by hundreds of thousands of barrels per day. The waiver runs through Sept. 15, when the summer control season would have ended regardless, and also lifts state-level controls in Texas, Arizona, and California for up to 20 days beyond that date, according to the EPA.
