Catching up on some good news last month the ASTM committee with jurisdiction over 85 octane chose not to move the ballot forward due to the Negative comments.
Have to make a couple of call outs to OPS, our supplier partners and EMA who all submitted negative ballots.
The high altitude allowance for 85 octane helps keep downward pressure on prices for Colorado and Wyoming families. While the specific ballot language would not have directly removed the allowance, it did consider removing some of the foundational language relative to engines and fuels that support the allowance.
As Colorado continues to face more pressure in the form of EPA clean air act mandates and fee increases (that effectively work the same way as tax increases) this is good news.
Please see some of the attachments of the negative comments that were submitted. The committee meets twice a year and while we anticipate that the proponents of the language will resubmit the negative ballots have to be addressed in this process.
If you want to learn more about how the science works relative to Fuel and engines then reading the technical comments of our supplier partners and regulators comments is really good background
|
|
