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Biodiesel blender pump hits Iowa; ethanol site opens in Colo.

DUBUQUE, Iowa -- Ron's Five Point Mart in Dubuque recently installed the state's first biodiesel blender pump, prompting both celebration and speculation on the part of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA), even as other biofuel options took root elsewhere across the country.

"They really are breaking ground here," IRFA managing director Lucy Norton told the Telegraph Herald about the blender pump. "We would anticipate that now that they have broken ground on this idea that we think it will be safe to say it will get the interest of other retailers as well."

Biodiesel blender pumps differ from regular gas pumps in that they offer customers more choices in alternative fuels.

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