Governor approves 6 cent per gallon tax break for E15 and higher blends

Governor Kim Reynolds has approved legislation that reduced the state tax on gas with an ethanol blend of 15 percent or higher.

Reynolds signed the bill at an ethanol plant in Steamboat Rock. The governor also announced plans to use seven million dollars in federal pandemic stimulus funds as grants to gas stations that install pumps that can dispense E-15 and higher blends.

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