| For years the ethanol industry has requested that all the subsidies be removed from both oil and ethanol. Then allow ethanol free access to the marketplace. Well, they removed the subsidy for ethanol, but oil still has their subsidies permanently written into the tax code. Then they get trillions of dollars worth of indirect support from our government. The oil companies have been caught price gouging on ethanol at fueling depots, and doing everything they can to limit availability at stations. Ethanol's share of the fuel market will continue to expand, as independent retailers break away from oil company control, and bypass the fuel terminals getting their ethanol directly from ethanol producers. This expansion will likely continue to work outward from the major ethanol producing parts of the country. Overseas and domestic demand for dried distillers grains has helped ethanol margins. This has helped the ethanol industry remain profitable despite the low oil prices that have put shale oil and tar sands oil in the red.
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