Producers want more ethanol in gas

The Washington Times
Tom LoBianco and Edward Felker, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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Despite being pinched by the economic downturn, ethanol producers are expanding so rapidly that they are pressing the government to overturn its 25-year-old rule that limits to 10 percent the amount of the corn-based additive that can be put into a tank of gasoline.

The effort comes as the industry finds itself well ahead of its federally mandated schedule to produce, by 2015, 15 billion gallons of ethanol each year for use in U.S. vehicles.

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