Ford Endorses Boosting Ethanol Blend to E15

Kiplinger Business Resource Center
By Peter Rohde, Editor, Kiplinger's Biofuels Market Alert
March 5, 2009

The healthiest U.S. automaker is getting out ahead on higher blends of biofuels.

A top Ford Motor Co. executive is giving the company's blessing to hiking the base level ethanol blend used by all vehicles in the near term to 15% or so. The ethanol industry sees the auto industry's acquiescence to slightly higher blends as critical to persuading the Obama administration's EPA to sign off on a waiver by declaring moderately higher blends substantially similar to the E10 blend of gasoline sold today.

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