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Senate Bill Would Double Ethanol Use
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, May 25, 2005


(05-25) 14:07 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --


Over the strong objections of oil companies, a Senate committee on Wednesday approved a requirement that refiners must use more corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels in gasoline.


The legislation would mandate that refiners use at least 8 billion gallons of renewable components — almost all of it ethanol made from corn — in gasoline annually by 2012. That would double ethanol production, a boon to farmers and the ethanol industry.


A House-passed energy bill would limit the requirement to 5 billion gallons.


Supporters of the higher number argued that use of ethanol as a 10 percent blend in gasoline would replace 5 percent of the gasoline by volume beginning in 2012 and reduce U.S. need for oil imports.

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