This is essentially the same legislation that was introduced in the Washington legislature this year. It won't work and the petroleum association will fight the bill. I notice your bill was filed back in January and nothing has been done about it. My guess is that it will die in the Commerce committee where it was referred.
I will make two points.
First, it is unnecessary to add Aircraft to a commerce bill. No state can make a law prohibiting a commercial enterprise on an airport from ordering unleaded gasoline without ethanol for aircraft use. Unleaded gasoline without ethanol is an approved aviation fuel. It is a federal matter and no state can regulate it. Unfortunately it is possible that the gasoline distributors can't meet the specification of the contract and won't supply the airport. This will happen if the airport orders premium unleaded fuel of 91 AKI or above and the distribution terminals have gone suboctane for ethanol blending and no longer get any unleaded gasoline above 89 AKI.
Marinas don't have this federal protection, that is why they are asking for this law.
What you are trying to do is to protect those pilots who self-fuel, that is buy gasoline for their aircraft at a local service station because their airport doesn't have mogas service on the airport.
Second, the gasoline distributors cannot live with the bill that is proposed. This is what happened in Washington. The bill will require that distributors have 87 AKI regular gasoline and 91+ AKI premium gasoline available. But in the future when all gasoline is E10 they won't be recieving this kind of gasoline. They will be receiving 84 AKI gasoline for blending with 10% ethanol which will result in 87 AKI regular and they will have 88-89 AKI premium blending product that when mixed with 10% ethanol will result in 91+ AKI premium.
Unless the state mandates that all premium unleaded be ethanol free, which they have a perfect right to do within the bounds of the federal RFS mandate, EISA 2007, there will be no premium unleaded gasoline of 91 AKI anymore, probably by the end of this year or early next year. After all EISA 2007 is not a mandatory E10 law, it is an E85 corporate welfare law.
All of the regular gasoline coming into Oregon from the refineries in Washington is now 84 AKI suboctane blending product, and as soon as all of the terminals in Western Washington have the ethanol injectors installed the refineries plan on taking premium unleaded production suboctane and there will be no 91 AKI premium unleaded in Washington or Oregon. That is what the petroleum lobby testified too in the Washington hearings and they were successful in killing the Washington bill in committeee without explanation. You can follow the testimony here:
http://www.pacificnorthwestflying.com/index.php?topic=2690.45 In the thread, I am N1593Y and my analysis of the WSPA testimony shows where the real problem is. There is additional information about the Washington legislation here:
http://e0pc.com/forum/index.php?topic=61.0
