CARTHAGE, ILL. -- People waited in line for more than an hour today to fill up on cheaper gas.  The Hancock County Farm Bureau hosted its 8th annual bio diesel and ethanol promotion in Carthage.  Ethanol was sold for 25 cents less per gallon than normal.  Bio diesel was 50 cents less per gallon. There has been talk for the past few years about an increase in ethanol plants in the tri state area, but so far none have been built. 

"We're kind of at a plateau of what we are allowed by the US Congress to produce as far as ethanol. We are capped at a certain limit and we've been trying for the last several years to raise that limit from 10 to 15 or 20 percent as an additive in your regular gasoline and we're working to raise that," said Hancock County Farm Bureau President Joe Zumwalt.

This year 1,152 gallons of bio diesel were sold along with 1,175 gallons of ethanol.