Midwest the winner in new biofuel boom

On early mornings at East Kansas Agri-Energy, trucks pack the driveway loop to unload bushels of dry, yellow corn into a hopper. By nighttime, those kernels are ready to transform – they’ll turn into fuel.
The U.S. ethanol industry now has 95 plants nationwide. Analysts say by 2012 it will almost double in volume, from producing 4.3 billion to 7.5 billion gallons of biofuel. That growth will be aided by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which gives ethanol producers sizable subsidies.

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