Ethanol coalition announces fuel pricing contest

The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) announced this week that users of E85prices.com will now have the ability to win free E85.

Each month, RFA will draw one random user from those that have submitted E85 price experiences during the past month and reward them with a $100 E85 fuel card. The more users submit prices, the better chance they have of winning.

“We want to drive consumers to the website in order to capture more data and reward them for doing just that,” says Robert White, RFA’s vice president of industry relations. “Data has never been more important for expanding retail availability of higher ethanol blends and defending the Renewable Fuel Standard against the ‘blend wall’ rhetoric. This new effort will help ensure that our station database and associated price reports are the most accurate possible.”

RFA purchased E85prices.com in February and has since released a new version of the website and the associated mobile app. Users can submit prices for all blends of ethanol like E15 and E30, but must always submit prices for E85 and regular unleaded.

Existing users do not need to do anything new in order to qualify. Non-users need to register at www.E85prices.com and submit pricing experiences.