Kitchen Sisters Cook Up Biodiesel

Cindy Zimmerman

Peabody-award winning Public Radio broadcasters the Kitchen Sisters are featuring Deep Fried Fuel on NPR’s Morning Edition this Thursday, August 24. That would be tomorrow morning as this is posted, but NPR does offer podcasts of features if you miss it. The Hidden Kitchen program “explores secret, underground, below-the-radar community cooking going on throughout America and how communities come together …

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Greenline in the Fast Lane

Cindy Zimmerman

Here’s a company doing some great biodiesel work. Greenline Industries of San Rafael, California manufactures a full range of biodiesel processing systems employing the very latest waterless technology. We serve a broad range of customers that include farm co-ops, small businesses, larger scale municipal interests, and full scale commercial plants delivering up to 40 million gallons of biodiesel per year, …

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Illinois Spurs Biofuels Development

Cindy Zimmerman

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich this week announced more than $25 million in grants and support to help build five new ethanol and biodiesel production facilities across Illinois. According to a release from the governor’s office, the new plants will spur about $334 million in private investment, produce 225 million gallons of biofuels each year, create almost 150 new jobs and …

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Retailers Pumped About Biodiesel

Cindy Zimmerman

A South Carolina petroleum retailer now makes a 20 percent biodiesel blend (B20) available at 35 public pumps statewide, signifying a trend of increasing availability to consumers nationally, according to the National Biodiesel Board. The Spinx Company has opened the locations throughout upper South Carolina. Thirteen of the B20 pumps are in Greenville, SC, giving the city’s consumers a new …

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Delivering Biodiesel to Truckers

Cindy Zimmerman

Gulf Hydrocarbon recently opened a new biodiesel terminal at the Intercontinental Fuel Terminal in Houston, TX. The new terminal allows trucks from major local distributors and area truck stops to load diesel and biodiesel fuel and access its automated loading systems. Drivers are able to select a blend of their choice, from B10 to B100, drivers come with a partial …

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MO Soybeans and Cargill

Cindy Zimmerman

Another place Domestic Fuel will be on Wednesday is at a press conference where a group of Missouir farmer-investors will announce plans for a joint venture with Cargill “to enhance the future of Missouri’s biodiesel industry.” Missouri Senator Jim Talent will also be there at the Cargill Soybean Processing Facility in Kansas City, right after he gets an award at …

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Veg Oil vs Biodiesel

Cindy Zimmerman

The biodiesel boom is changing the dynamics of the global vegetable oil industry, according to a new report out by Rabobank’s Food and Agribusiness Research group. According to a news release, the report “finds that the increasing global appetite for biodiesel and other biofuels is driving demand for vegetable oils to historic levels in world markets, leading to higher prices …

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