Senator praises progress on I-65 biofuel corridor project

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Richard Lugar touted progress in an Indiana-led initiative to make renewable fuel available along nearly 900 miles of Interstate 65, calling the project an important step toward reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

The point often omitted about those efforts "is that none of this is useful unless there are outlets for the products, unless there is some thoughtfulness about the infrastructure" and how to get ethanol from the corn fields into drivers' gas tanks, Lugar said.