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Increasing access to higher blends of ethanol

Drivers in northwest Indiana will have more access to higher blends of ethanol at the pump.  The Indiana Corn Marketing Council and the Indiana Office of Energy Development will provide Family Express with a grant to install blender pumps through the Hoosier Homegrown Fuels Blender Pump Program.  More than $700,000 will be made available to give consumers increased access to higher blends of ethanol where blends of E15 and E85 are limited or not available.

Family Express plans to install 45 flex fuel (blender) pumps capable of dispensing higher blends of ethanol in Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Porter, St. Joseph, Starke, Tippecanoe, and White counties.

David Gottbrath, president of the Indiana Corn Marketing Council and a Washington County farmer, says increasing accessibility to ethanol-blended fuels is a key priority for the organization because the state’s ethanol industry is a major consumer of the corn produced across Indiana.

ICMC, the state corn checkoff, has committed more than $440,000 in matching funds with the goal of adding 110 pumps offering E15-E85 across the state.