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Mike Rounds: “Eliminate [the changeover from winter blend to summer blend]…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Published | Video Starts at 05:57

The other reason is it's expensive to transition from a winter blend to a summer blend of fuel. If we allow these petroleum companies to produce just one blend year round, it Eliminate [the changeover from winter blend to summer blend] would save money. Combination between the two, some people say as high as 35 to 40 cents per gallon. I would suspect in the Midwest, we could be closing in close to that because of the availability of E15 very, very quickly. (05:57–05:58)

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Asserts that eliminating the seasonal fuel blend changeover would save money.

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