FTC Seeks Public Comments on Ethanol Labeling Rule

NACS Online
Posted: Mar 3, 2010

The proposal would make mid-level fuel blends be certified, labeled and rated.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed several changes to its Fuel Rating Rule, including adding “gasoline-ethanol blends containing between 10 percent and 70 percent ethanol to the list of fuels that must be rated, certified and labeled,” Oil Price Information Service reports.

When established in 1979, the Fuel Ratings Rule only required gasoline to be labeled and certified. The FTC added liquid alternative fuels in 1993, and amended the rule again in 2008 to require biodiesel labeling.

The rule’s current definition of alternative fuels does not list biodiesel fuels at 5 percent or less concentrations nor does it include mid-level ethanol blends. Last March, the FTC solicited comments on the Fuel Rating Rule.

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U.S. Federal Trade Commission "2008 Report on U.S. Ethanol Market Concentration"

GrainNet.com
Date Posted: November 18, 2008

Shows Industry Not Concentrated Enough to Coordinate Price or Output

The Commission has issued the report, “2008 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration.”
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This is the Commission’s fourth annual report on the state of ethanol production in the United States, as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

The report concludes that the U.S. fuel ethanol market, measured on the basis of production or capacity, remains unconcentrated.

As of September 2008, 160 firms produced ethanol in the United States – a one-year increase of 57 firms.

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