Doing her part: Foster City resident Janet Migliore has worked for more than three decades in her family’s San Mateo auto-repair shop. In early 2006, she started offering biodiesel-conversion services to owners of older-model diesel vehicles. (Mike Koozmin/Special to the Examiner)
“I’m in the car industry — I’m here, so what can I do to impact my carbon footprint?” Migliore said. “This is what I can do. I can fix cars up and have them run on biodiesel. So that’s what I do.”
In early 2006, Migliore began offering biodiesel conversion services to owners of older-model diesel vehicles. For around $350, she installs fuel hoses that are resilient to the weeping effects seen when biodiesel flows through traditional rubber tubes.
This is another family-based small business person making a biodiesel difference in her world. Please enjoy the story and photo album included in it. This story is local to me.
Photo from: http://www.imperiumrenewables.com/news.php
General Biodiesel, a startup biofuel company in Seattle, announced Wednesday that it bought the former Seattle Biodiesel facility for an undisclosed amount.
The facility is capable of producing 5 million gallons of biodiesel a year.
The refinery served as a pilot plant for Imperium Renewables for two years before the company opened a larger refinery in Grays Harbor, Wash., which is capable of producing 100 million gallons annually.
Nice, this is a sale of a small biodiesel plant, but it comes with a ready-made contract for the product, making an instant success of the start-up General Biodiesel. More opportunity is spread around to small companies.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - (Business Wire) The Southwestern Biofuels Association (SWBA) (www.swbiofuels.org) today joined Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) in urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider an interim rulemaking to help the U.S. biodiesel industry remain viable in the marketplace until EPA issues final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rules in 2010.
How are we supposed to progress biodiesel as a new science and fuel resource if we are bothered by EPA calculations which take into account biofuel growing practices in South America?
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WASHINGTON, June 24, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA Rural Development has approved a $25 million loan to enable a Minnesota biodiesel facility to diversify its operations and significantly expand the production of advanced biofuels. "The investment announced today helps fulfill the Obama Administration's goal of increasing production of biofuels while securing jobs in the alternative fuels industry," Vilsack said. "This is great news for a community that recently saw this company cease production of its operations due to tough economic conditions."
Now we’re talking, biodiesel is deserving of government investment of this sort, don’t you think? Let us invest some government money in biodiesel science and industry, it gives back to the country.