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January 21, 2003Backers: Ethanol helps US as war looms Associated Press
GROTON, S.D. - Ethanol can help keep gas prices from soaring as war with Iraq looms, a supporter of the new James Valley ethanol plant near Groton says.
"It can help hold that down a little bit because part of it will be produced here cheaper than probably we can buy overseas," said one of the plant's investors, Bruce Cutler.
The James Valley plant will be the largest ethanol plant in South Dakota. It's expected to process more than 15 million bushels of corn each year.
The plant is expected to be making the corn-based fuel additive by this summer. It could produce 45 million gallons per year, about half of which will be shipped to the West Coast. California law requires a 10 percent blend of ethanol to gas.
Ethanol now is added in a 10-percent blend with gasoline, but Cutler said the percentage could rise to help reduce dependence on Middle East oil even more.
"Technically, there's nothing that says we can't blend it to 20 percent or even higher. They make cars right now that will run on 85 percent ethanol with 15 percent blend of gasoline, and they're widely available around the country," he said.
Groton farmer Brett Anderson said ethanol plants increase the price of corn in their areas. "I think you could probably expect a lot of ethanol plants will raise the price of corn 10 cents (a bushel) in the area or increase the base or improve the base by about a dime, typically."
The weather has cooperated with construction work on the James Valley plant, said Curt Mahon, plant superintendent. "We've had good weather as far as the winter and pretty open. We've been able to do a lot of things we didn't think we were going to be able to do," Mahon said.
Three new ethanol plants are under construction in South Dakota.
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