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Pumping for Ethanol

Pumping for Ethanol

Cindy Zimmerman

August 19, 2008

Senator Sam Brownback of
Kansas was out filling up cars with fuel early Monday morning at the grand
opening of a new ethanol blender pump station in Colwich that was held in
conjunction with the announcement of a new initiative in
Kansas that will help fuel
station retailers obtain funding and the equipment needed to sell higher blends
of ethanol. The new initiative introduced by the

Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC),

ICM and the

Kansas Corn Commission aims to install a minimum of 100 blender pumps around
the state over the next year.
Brownback also helped ICM
president Dave Vander Griend cut the ribbon for TJ Convenience store’s new
blender pumps, which offer ethanol in four different flavors - E10, E20, E30 and
E85. The higher blends can only legally be used in flex-fuel vehicles.

Back in Washington, the
senator is working on legislation that would increase the number of flex-fuel
vehicles that can use those higher blends with the

Open Fuel Standard Act, which he introduced last month along with Senators
Salazar of Colorado and Lieberman of Connecticut. The act would require half of
new automobiles to be flex-fuel by 2012, and 80 percent by 2015.

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