In a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) renewed calls to make E15 available to sell year-round. Since the outbreak of war in Iran, gas prices have risen sharply, causing pain at the pump for Americans.
“With gas prices spiking, now’s the time to make E15 available year-round,” said Klobuchar. “It will help lower costs and decrease our dependence on foreign oil.”
A video of Ranking Member Klobuchar’s questions during the hearing is HERE.
In the hearing, Klobuchar heard directly from agriculture leaders about the need to strengthen domestic commodity markets and reduce costs at the pump. E15 is about 25 cents lower per gallon than regular gasoline.
Klobuchar has long been a strong advocate for investing in renewable fuel infrastructure, increasing American biofuel production, and upholding the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
In April 2025, Klobuchar and Senator Grassley (R-IA) led a bipartisan letter urging the EPA to strengthen the RFS by raising Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO) levels for biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels. The letter also pushed back against the flagrant abuse of Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs) and asked that all gallons waived by legitimate waivers be accounted for in the final RVOs.
In July 2025, Klobuchar, along with Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), introduced the Ethanol for America Act to improve access to E15 by confirming the compatibility of E15 with existing underground fuel storage and dispensing equipment. The bill would ensure business owners are not required to make costly and unnecessary infrastructure changes to sell ethanol blends up to 15 percent.
In February 2024, Klobuchar and Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) led a group of 40 bipartisan members of Congress urging the Biden Administration to act quickly to ensure that the model used to determine eligibility for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) tax credits unlocks the potential held by farmers, ethanol producers, and airlines to reduce carbon emissions from aviation.
In January 2024, Klobuchar, along with Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Farm to Fly Act. This legislation would help accelerate the production and development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through existing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs and allow further growth for alternative fuels to be used in the aviation sector, creating new markets for American farmers.
