Distributors to gain most

Ethanol shippers will clean up taking fuel to both coasts

GARNETT, KAN. – On early mornings at East Kansas Agri-Energy, trucks pack the driveway to unload bushels of dry yellow corn into a hopper. By nighttime, those kernels are ready to transform

Rust, who works for Colwich, Kan.-based ICM, the nation’s largest designer of ethanol plants, says the factory sends streams of patrons to Garnett’s supermarket and keeps Kansas farmers in business.

The town of about 3,350 has also become part of a new supply chain, where a small group of fuel distributors and ethanol barons stand to make a mint shipping the alternative fuel from the Midwest, where it’s made, to major urban markets on both coasts.

AP