Expansion of Ethanol Industry Must Continue

By Rep. John Shimkus
Special to Roll Call
March 5, 2007, 12 a.m.

Today, the U.S. ethanol industry stands tall, boasting 113 manufacturing facilities with an annual capacity of nearly 5.6 billion gallons of ethanol. In my state of Illinois alone, there are eight ethanol plants producing more than 900 million gallons of ethanol.



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