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New pumps cost more than $100,000.
• The American Automobile Association, for now, sides with the oil industry. The motoring club says the government should halt sales of E15 until additional testing allows ethanol producers and automakers to agree on which vehicles can safely use E15 while ensuring that consumers are adequately informed of risks.
• A spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents 12 major car makers, said E15 gas is more corrosive and the EPA approved it before it could be fully tested.
• Older cars were "never designed to use E15," spokeswoman Gloria Bergquist said. Use of the fuel over time could create significant engine problems, she said.
• The API cites engine problems discovered during a study it commissioned last year, but the Energy Department called the research flawed and said it included engines with known durability issues.
• For now, E15 remains a regional anomaly. About 20 stations currently offer the fuel in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• Dinneen and other ethanol advocates said the Supreme Court ruling may serve as a breakthrough for E15, after years of delay.
• "With this decision, E15 can finally become a meaningful option for more Americans," Dinneen said.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Scattered rain showers and warmer temperatures are helping to advance crop development in South Dakota
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that farmers and ranchers had on average 5.1 days suitable for fieldwork.
• Winter wheat is jointed at 88 percent and headed at 63 percent. That's slightly behind the average pace of 90 percent. Winter wheat conditions are rated 35 percent very poor, 16 percent poor, 29 percent fair, 19 percent good and 1 percent excellent.
• Soybean planting is 98 percent complete, and corn is rated 2 percent very poor, 4 percent poor, 28 percent fair, 52 percent good, and 14 percent excellent.
• Pasture and range conditions rated 1 percent very poor, 4 percent poor, 21 percent fair, 60 percent good and 14 percent excellent.
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