A California bill aiming to make what it described as a “cleaner, cheaper” blend of gasoline available at pumps passed the state Assembly and now awaits hearings in the Senate.
Assembly Bill 30 would authorize the sale and use in California of E15 gasoline, which is gasoline blended with up to 15 percent of ethanol.
“AB 30 is the Cleaner, Cheaper Fuels Act,” the bill’s lead author, Assemblyman David Alvarez of San Diego, said before the floor vote on June 4. “California drivers could see up to 20 cents per gallon reduction in their cost of gasoline.”
California is the only state in the United States that does not allow the use of E15 gasoline, Alvarez said, and the legislation “brings California in line with the rest of the nation.”…