Some or all of VeraSun could pass to oil owner

At the height of its rapid ascent in the ethanol business, VeraSun Energy owned assets worth as much as $2 billion and was in the running to become the largest ethanol producer in the United States.

What those same 16 ethanol plants, including Nebraska holdings at Ord, Albion and Central City, are worth in a Delaware bankruptcy court could be known as soon as Tuesday.


Sealed bids were being opened Monday. And despite the petroleum industry