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MENLO, Iowa -- President Joe Biden used a stop at a Guthrie County, Iowa biofuels plant Tuesday to announce the easing of restrictions on the sale of E-15 blended gasoline this summer.
"The Environmental Protection Agency's planning to issue an emergency waiver to allow E-15 gasoline--that uses more ethanol from home-grown crops--to be sold across the United States this summer to increase fuel supply," he says.
At POET Bioprocessing In Menlo--west of Des Moines--Biden says the increased use of E-15 should also ease the burden of high gas prices.
"With this waiver, on June 1, you're not going to show up at your local gas station as see a bag over the pump that has the cheapest gas. You're going to be able to keep filling up with E-15," Biden says.
The White House says E-15 gas, which uses 15-percent corn-based ethanol, can cost ten cents a gallon less than regular gasoline.
Also during the stop in Iowa, Biden says the Russian war on Ukraine has driven up gas and food prices all over the world.
He called Russian President Vladimir Putin a dictator and suggested Putin is committing "genocide" in Ukraine.
President Biden also promoted the big infrastructure bill he signed late last year, pointing to the large number of bridges in Iowa that have been deemed "insufficient" for regular use.