Houston-based energy company Kinder Morgan says it will spend $100 million to expand its biodiesel terminals in Houston, New Orleans, and New York City. According to a press release posted on the Kinder Morgan web site, Green Earth Fuels will build biodiesel production facilities at several Kinder Morgan terminals and already has underway an 86 million gallon facility in Houston expected to open this summer.
“Expanding our facilities to store and transfer biodiesel will benefit producers and help meet the country’s growing demand for additional energy resources,” said KMP Terminals President Jeff Armstrong. Upon completion, these expansions are expected to be immediately accretive to distribution available to KMP unitholders.
The facilities will be integrated into the petroleum infrastructure already in those areas.
KMP is already a major player in the ethanol market handling about 1.5 billion gallons of ethanol… or about 30% of U.S. market… each year.
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“I think it’s a step in the right direction,” Petrus said after the vote. “It shows Arkansas is serious about doing this.”
Fulton, Missouri… home of Westminster College, which is home of Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech… could soon be home to Missouri’s newest biodiesel plant. The city’s council has approved a plan to have a 10-million-gallon-a-year refinery on a parcel of land owned by the city.
Cherry says it is a precision-timed catalytic glow plug, which he calls a “Smart Plug,” with several international patents pending that makes the unusual mix of fuel and water possible. In fact, he says the engines have more torque and horsepower, they run cooler, have lower emissions, and of course, ethanol and biodiesel are easier to produce and easier on the environment. 
Cherry recently hit the road with his water and ethanol and diesel powered vehicles and stopped in South Dakota to show off his new technology. He says most people were excited about his invention. “Comments like ‘Wow!’ or ‘This does better than my truck!’ ” Cherry says people were also impressed with the acceleration and the actually pleasant aroma from the exhaust. And he adds, despite some bitterly cold temperatures when he was in South Dakota, there was no danger of the water-ethanol mixture freezing since it has a slush point of 100 degrees below zero.
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Brueggeman said biodiesel fuels can be made from oils derived from Montana’s farm crops. By using these homegrown, renewable energy resources, he said, Montana could help curb the country’s dependency on foreign oil.