OPEC Wins, America Loses in House Vote

WASHINGTON, DC - February 19, 2011: ­ Growth Energy leaders say they continue to oppose provisions ­ approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives ­ that would block the Administtration from implementing policies that would reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create jobs and strengthen our national security.

Two amendments offered by Reps. John Sullivan, R-Okla. and Jeff Flake R-Ariz. would continue America's addiction to foreign oil and harm our economy by blocking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its approved waiver for E15 ethanol blends in America's fuel supply and prohibiting construction of blender pumps and ethanol storage facilities.

In a landmark regulatory decision, the EPA had approved E15 for all vehicles built in the last decade ­ about 1511 million cars, or 67 percent of the country's vehicles, which together consume 75 percent of the country's fuel. The decision, in response to Growth Energy's Green Jobs Waiver, was based solely on data collected from a rigorous, lengthy and extreme standard of testing on performance of engines, emissions systems and automobile drivability; E15 was found to work fine in all automobiles tested, from model year 2001 and newer.