JOHNSON ENCOURAGES EXPANDED USE AND PRODUCTION OF SOY BIODIESEL IN ...

JOHNSON ENCOURAGES EXPANDED USE AND PRODUCTION OF SOY BIODIESEL IN ...
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Columbus, OH -- Lieutenant Governor Bruce Johnson today encouraged increased use and production of soy biodiesel, a renewable, domestic energy resource. ...

Columbus, OH -- Lieutenant Governor Bruce Johnson today encouraged increased use and production of soy biodiesel, a renewable, domestic energy resource. Soy biodiesel is a fuel that burns cleaner than conventional petroleum and requires no special modifications to existing diesel engines. Johnson delivered his remarks at "Soy Biodiesel…Fueling Ohio's Future," an event sponsored by the Ohio Soybean Council, Ohio’s Tomorrow and Peter Cremer North America.

"Ohio is leading the way in the advancement of this emerging alternative energy source," said Johnson, who also serves as director of the Ohio Department of Development. "The use, production and availability of soy biodiesel is rising fast across the state. At the state level, we are strongly encouraging the use of soy biodiesel in farm equipment and motor vehicles to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, decrease emissions and expand uses for Ohio-grown agricultural products. It is important that we continue to encourage biodiesel producers to invest in our communities and create jobs for Ohio workers."

Soy biodiesel is an alternative fuel made from soybeans and its most common use is blending it with petroleum to create a soy biodiesel blend. The most common blends are B5 (5% soy biodiesel and 95% petroleum), B10 and B20. Farmers are the biggest users of soy biodiesel and if every farmer filled up with a B20 blend, they would use 14,286,000 bushels of Ohio soybeans and generate $73.6 million in revenue for Ohio soybean farmers.

Currently, Ohio has three biodiesel production facilities located in Cincinnati, Defiance and Hicksville. A fourth facility, American Biodiesel, LLC, will soon begin production in Toledo. Ohio has doubled its number of soy biodiesel distributors in the last year, now with more than 150 distributors, and consumers can fuel up at the pump from 50 retail locations. Earlier this month, Ohio opened its first biofuels pumps located near an interstate. This facility is located at the Sunoco station in Mt. Gilead (Morrow County), near I-71, which offers both soy biodiesel and E85.

Several transit bus fleets, company fleets, school districts and other public and private organizations across the state are using soy biodiesel including: the Southwestern Ohio Regional Transit Authority; the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority; The Ohio State University Campus Area Bus Service; The Ohio Department of Transportation; the Toledo area Metro Parks; The NASA John Glenn Institute in Cleveland; and Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Daimler Chrysler in Toledo is factory fueling Common Rail Diesel Jeep Liberties with a B5 blend of soy biodiesel, made from Ohio soybeans, as they come off the assembly line.

Johnson also praised Columbus' Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), which is fueling its 234 buses with soy biodiesel and is using a B90 blend (90 percent soy biodiesel and 10 percent petroleum), the highest blend used by a transit system in the nation. COTA buses use an estimated 1.2 million gallons of soy biodiesel, saving COTA and estimated $400,000 a year.
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