High fuel blends said crucial for ethanol

Boosting the level of ethanol used in fuel blends is crucial to continuing the alternative energy industry’s rapid growth, a panel of experts said.

About half of the gasoline sold across the United States is blended with 10 percent ethanol, but that percentage needs to increase for ethanol to go from being merely an additive to a true alternative, said Don Endres, chairman and chief executive officer of Brookings-based VeraSun Energy Corp., one the nation’s largest ethanol producers.

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