DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Feb. 17, 2015) — Oregon's House of Representatives has introduced legislation that would remove the requirement that all gasoline offered for sale in the state contain a percentage of ethanol.
According to the Specialty Equipment Market Association's (SEMA) Washington, D.C., staff , the state now requires that “a retail dealer, nonretail dealer or wholesale dealer may not sell or offer for sale gasoline unless the gasoline contains 10 percnt ethanol by volume.”
H.B. 2373 “recognizes that while the current ethanol mandate does not apply to fuel used in antique, all-terrain and racing vehicles,” SEMA said, “there has been an inability to obtain unblended gasoline for engines that may be damaged by ethanol.”
More information about the issue is available on SEMA's Action Network (SAN) website or by emailing the association's Steve McDonald at [email protected].