US ethanol glut begins to test limits of storage capacity

Chicago

THERE is so much ethanol in the US that producers are struggling to find a place to store the fuel.

Kinder Morgan Inc, the nation's largest pipeline operator, said on Monday that it is rerouting delivery trucks away from its Argo, Illinois, terminal to another facility nearby because of what it describes as "an imbalance of stockpile inventories" at both locations.