 In fact, the Brazilian oil company Petrobas is already embarking on
an ethanol pipeline construction project that will be capable of
transporting more than 3 billion gallons of ethanol per year through
its main trunk line.Several feasibility studies for ethanol
pipelines are also under way in America. The most recent
announcement came last week from Magellan Midstream Partners LP and
Buckeye Partners LP. Their proposed pipeline project would span
nearly 1,700 miles and supply more than 10 million gallons of
ethanol per day from the Midwest to distribution terminals in the
northeast.
But even without such a pipeline, the American ethanol industry
is able to move its product to market through a flexible "virtual
pipeline" of railways, trucks and barges. That was true in 2007 as
the industry supplied more than 6.5 billion gallons -- and it will
remain true in the years ahead as the industry continues to grow.
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