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EIA weekly ethanol data
US ethanol production unexpectedly expanded 1,000 barrels to 935,000 barrels, still 12 percent below this time a year ago. Traders were looking for a 7,000 decline. Corn crop year t o date (September through early January) is running 7.3 percent below the same period a year earlier. There were no ethanol imports. US ethanol stocks declined 220,000 barrels to 23.284 million. Traders were looking for an increase of 241,000. This was the first decrease in stocks in ten weeks. US gasoline demand fell 687,000 barrels to 7.441 million, down 8.5 percent from a year ago. The refinery and blender net input of oxygenates fuel ethanol (blender input) was 719,000 barrels, down 99,000 from the previous week and 10.2 percent below year ago. The percent of ethanol blended into finished motor gasoline was 89.5 percent.
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