Ethanol exports rise, even to Mideast

Des Moines Register
By PHILIP BRASHER • pbrasher@dmreg.com • May 23, 2010

Washington, D.C. — The United States has a growing new export — ethanol fuel — and a lot is going to, of all places, the Middle East.

New government data show that nearly 46 million gallons of U.S. corn ethanol was exported in March, up from 4 million in March 2009. For the first three months of this year, ethanol exports totaled 72 million gallons.

Twelve billion gallons of ethanol must be used domestically this year under the government's biofuel mandates.

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