The group noted a quote from Wheeler, who said that allowing E15 sales all year “will help make up the difference for any small refinery exemptions going forward.”
However, NBB pointed out, that the E15 waiver “will not provide market growth for biodiesel and renewable diesel,” Kurt Kovarik, NBB head of federal affairs, said in the letter. “EPA is required to repair the demand destruction for biodiesel and renewable diesel resulting from your agency’s flood of unwarranted, retroactive small refinery exemptions.”