Your guide for advocating for year-round E15

This toolkit is intended to serve as a member resource — whether you’re looking for tactics or language to use during plant tours, local town halls, stakeholder meetings, or media engagements — this document contains everything you need to effectively advocate for permanent, year-round access to E15 in all states. It includes talking points, sample social media content, and background information, to help ensure a consistent and compelling message across all outreach efforts.

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Learn more about bioethanol’s role in reducing emissions, creating jobs, lowering costs, fostering energy independence, and enhancing engine performance.

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UNL88 is Gaining Quick Traction in the Marketplace.

Today, there are more than 4,300 retail locations in 34 states selling E15 at a price point up to a dollar cheaper per gallon than regular gasoline.

The vast majority of these locations are selling UNL88 (E15) along with E85 at blender pumps and making both available at nearly every dispensing location.

MOVERS. Major retailers selling or committed to selling E15 include: Sheetz, Thorntons, Kum & Go, bp, Maverik, Love’s, Circle K, RaceTrac, Kwik Trip, Cenex, Casey’s, Rutters, Pump & Pantry, NUVU Fuels, United Dairy Farmers, QuikTrip, Sinclair, Minnoco, Protec Fuel, Royal Farms, Murphy USA, and Family Express.

LOCATION. These retailers are not exclusively in the rural Midwest. Many of these retailers are in major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Louisville, Raleigh-Durham, and San Antonio.

VOLUME. The average convenience store sells 1 million gallons of gasoline per year on average, while the bulk of the retailers involved in the industry-sponsored Prime the Pump program sell 2.8 million gallons per year on average — nearly 3 times as much volume as the traditional retailer.

BLEND. The retailer partners are seeing an average bioethanol blend rate that easily exceeds 10 percent, pushing beyond the so-called 10 percent blend wall.

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Biofuels Retail Tax Incentive: Support Indiana Agriculture

• Ethanol sales alone accounted for nearly $3 billion annually. The farm gate value of corn
  purchased is nearly $2 billion.
• Indiana ethanol producers create co-products like 3.2 million tons of high-protein animal
  feed, 180 million pounds of industrial corn oil, beverage grade CO2, purified alcohol, hand
  sanitizer and other cleaning agents.
• $1.85B of economic activity in Indiana is supported by biodiesel production.
• Indiana ranks No. 6 in soybean production with nearly 300 million pounds of Indiana’s
  soybean oil going to biodiesel production annually.

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