Pacific Ethanol Purchases Sugar From Government to Make Fuel
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Pacific Ethanol Inc., a West Coast producer of the biofuel, said it bought raw beet sugar from the U.S. government to make the additive.
The company purchased 167 million pounds of sugar from the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Commodity Credit Corp. that it plans to blend with corn and that may yield about 12 million gallons of ethanol, Sacramento-based Pacific said in a statement today.