Reuters: An ethanol trade group submitted a formal request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to boost the allowed ethanol-to-gasoline blend rate as high as 15 percent from the current cap of 10 percent. The higher blend rate would reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil and help the sagging U.S. economy by generating as many as 136,000 new jobs and injecting $24.4 billion into the American economy each year, said Growth Energy, The EPA has 270 days to review, …