Hunter-Reay helps open ethanol plant in Ohio

Ryan Hunter-Reay, who drove the No. 17 Team Ethanol car to its first victory in 2008, participated in the grand opening of POET Biorefining’s new Ethanol production facility Sept. 30 in Fostoria, Ohio. The facility is the second to open in Ohio, and its state-of-the-art refining process will yield 65 million gallons of ethanol each year and also will create POET’s high-quality livestock feed grain, Dakota Gold.

“I am very pleased to be able to be here today to help open the plant, and to further the cause of ethanol," Hunter-Reay told the crowd that included congressman Bob Latta and the director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Robert Boggs. “In the IndyCar Series, we have done a lot to dispel the negative myths about the performance of ethanol, and I look forward to doing even more in the years to come."