Bringing biofuels’ benefits back home

KansasCity.com
Posted on Tue, Jul. 06, 2010 10:15 PM

It’s not your father’s ethanol industry anymore.

Founded three decades ago in order to enhance the nation’s energy security, the U.S. ethanol industry is searching overseas for new opportunities to expand its markets. And the industry is succeeding well beyond what most observers would have believed possible only a few years ago.

According to recent reports by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau, the industry exported 83 million gallons of ethanol during the first three months of 2010 and is on track to sell a record total of at least 330 million gallons by the end of this year.

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