"DES MOINES, Iowa - With new ethanol and biodiesel plants going online monthly and increasing demand for the homegrown fuel additives, transportation companies are scurrying to provide the needed trains, trucks and storage tanks to keep up with the rapidly growing industry.
"The fuel additive industry is growing from regional to national distribution, driven by a federal renewable fuels standard beginning in 2006 that is expected to double the use of ethanol and biodiesel by 2012.
“The transportation system must keep up to move the raw materials to processing plants and ship the fuel from the Corn Belt to markets around the country.”
If it were all going to the same area, it would be logical to build a pipeline instead. Hopefully, they wont try that untill the INR can recover all the investment they are planning to make this plant and expansion possible. Perhaps the NIMBY’s will actually be doing this railroad a favor for a change!