With the Colorado Front Range on the verge of an air quality downgrade by the Environmental Protection Agency, Gov. Jared Polis battles environmentalists over whether drivers should pay more for a …
As foul smog continues to hover along the Front Range horizon, millions of Colorado drivers will pay more for a special formula of gasoline that is supposed to cause less pollution. But just how much that fuel improves the air and whether the expense is worth the financial burden it is under debate in Colorado.
Already, Suncor Energy, which operates a large refinery in Commerce City and provides a third of the gasoline used in Colorado, said it is investing $36 million at its facility to produce the gas. The company, which provided a statement to The Denver Post, would not comment on how much of that cost would be passed to consumers or how much more it would cost retailers who have to buy the special blend for their pumps.
For example, Colorado’s legislature approved a massive transportation bill in 2021, but six months later Gov. Jared Polis sought to temporarilyPlus, Colorado is one of four states where 85 octane is sold and no other state required to use reformulated gas sells that blend. Mike Silverstein, executive director of the Regional Air Quality Council, said he’s researched the regions where reformulated gas is required and almost all of them, excluding those in California, have cheaper gasoline than Colorado.
“Now is not the time to require reformulated gas,” Buky said. “Fuel costs impact every other aspect of our lives.” Between 1995 and 1999, drivers using reformulated gas cut emissions of pollutants that cause smog by 64,000 tons, which is the equivalent of taking 10 million cars running on conventional gasoline of the road, the EPA said in a 1999 report. And by expanding its use that year, the EPA predicted another 41,000 tons of pollutants would be removed.
“The state is frustrated that the Clean Air Act offers only a decades old one-size-fits-all approach that does not provide states with the latitude to make data driven decisions on what works best for improving air quality in an economically effective manner,” the letter stated.
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