Another ethanol plant is shutting down

Another ethanol plant is shutting down

Another Midwest ethanol plant is shutting down.

Siouxland Energy Cooperative, a producer owned company located in northwest Iowa, says it will idle production at its ethanol production facility in Sioux Center.

Officials say the closing is

because of small refinery exemptions granted to large oil refiners, which they

say have undermined the Renewable Fuel Standard and reduced ethanol demand by four

billion gallons.  They expressed hope

that they will be able to resume production once the RFS issues are addressed.

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