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� BIODIESEL PRODUCERS, HOME HEATING INDUSTRY SUP- PORT BIODIESEL BLENDERS’ TAX CREDIT LEGISLATION
NATSO, the national association representing America’ s travel plazas and truck stops, SIGMA: America’ s Leading Fuel Marketers, the National Association of Convenience Stores( NACS), the National Energy & Fuels Institute( NEFI) and Sustainable Advanced Biofuel Refiners( SABR) today applauded Senator Marsha Blackburn( R-Tenn.) for introducing the“ Consumer Relief and Opportunities for Producers Act”( S. 3297) that would temporarily reinstate the $ 1 per gallon‘ 40A’ Biodiesel Blenders’ Tax Credit.
The CROP Act( S. 3297) would reinstate the Biodiesel Tax Credit for six months through May 31, 2026, at the blender level. Taxpayers would be able to choose between claiming the Biodiesel Tax Credit or the‘ 45Z’ Clean Fuel Production Credit.
“ Reliable and affordable supplies of biodiesel and renewable diesel are a top priority for America’ s heating oil dealers, who serve nearly 5 million homes across the country. NEFI is therefore proud to endorse the Consumer Relief and Opportunities for Producers Act,” said NEFI President and CEO Jim Collura.“ Enactment of this bill would support our mostly small family businesses transition to renewable liquid heating fuels, which offer a lower cost and more immediate solution to reduce building emissions and contribute to regional energy security and diversity.”
“ We commend Senator Blackburn for her commitment to strengthening America’ s energy markets through a reinstatement of the Biodiesel Blenders’ Tax Credit,” said NATSO President and CEO Max McBrayer.“ Renewing the Biodiesel Blenders’ Tax Credit would help bring down the price of diesel in many markets throughout the United States, which would help American consumers navigate the affordability challenges that many of them are currently experiencing.”
“ Reinstating the Biodiesel Blenders’ Tax Credit is the right decision for both fuel retailers, trucking companies, and the
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American people,” McBrayer said.“ We appreciate Senator Blackburn for her leadership in restoring the longstanding Section‘ 40A’
Biodiesel Blenders’ Tax Credit, which has a proven track record of increasing biofuel production and lowering fuel prices at the pump,” said Matt Durand, Deputy General Counsel for NACS.“‘ 40A’ worked because it was straightforward and transparent. Fuel retailers have been flying blind without it, and the market is in distress amid such largescale uncertainty.”
“ The expiration of the Biodiesel Tax Credit has imposed upward pressure on retail diesel prices and meaningfully hurt the American farm economy,” said Matt Ports, President of Ports Petroleum and Chairman of SIGMA’ s Board of Directors.“ SIGMA is grateful for Senator Blackburn’ s
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leadership in getting this important tax credit extended.”
Despite being first enacted more than three years ago, the industry continues to await proposed regulations from Treasury implementing the‘ 45Z’ biofuel production credit. It is uncertain what the incentive for biodiesel will be under‘ 45Z,’ but it will inevitably be much less than $ 1 per gallon, and likely do little to turn around the biodiesel industry’ s ongoing decline, the groups said in a Dec. 11 joint statement.
The‘ 45Z’ credit has not facilitated sufficiently favorable blending economics to prompt fuel retailers to purchase more biofuels, they said. After more than three years,‘ 45Z’ s’ complexity has created delays, revisions, and uncertainty, they said. The biodiesel industry and American consumers are paying the price. It remains uncertain when the Trump Administration will propose rules around‘ 45Z,’ when those rules will be finalized, and whether the ultimate result will be favorable to the biodiesel industry, the statement said.
When it was in place, the Biodiesel Tax Credit enabled the biodiesel industry to grow from approximately 100 million gallons in 2005 to more than 2 billion gallons in 2024, according to the statement. Since the‘ 40A’ credit expired at the end of 2024, however, the biodiesel industry has been on life support, the statement said. In 2025, biodiesel consumption fell dramati-
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