Archive for August 16th, 2007
Nation’s Largest Biodiesel Plant Opens Doors

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.– The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) today joined Imperium Renewables in officially opening the company’s second facility and ushering it into a growing biodiesel industry. The new Imperium plant, near Grays Harbor, Wash., has an annual capacity of 100 million gallons. That makes it the largest biodiesel plant currently operating in the nation.

“The opening of this plant is a valuable addition to America’s biodiesel industry,” said Manning Feraci, NBB vice president of federal affairs, who attended today’s grand opening. “The U.S. biodiesel industry is committed to enhancing America’s energy independence by replacing foreign oil with environmentally friendly, domestically produced renewable fuels. Imperium’s plant will further our industry’s objectives in this regard, and will add valuable refining capacity to our nation’s fuel supply.”

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1977 Volkswagen Rabbit Recognized As Oldest Volkswagen Diesel

Oldest VW Rabbit

The only thing about mileage came from bakersfield.com, the website for the newspaper of bakersfield, which said it currently has about 130K miles on a rebuilt engine. I’m sure there are higher mileage ones out there but this one probably looked the best. Anyway, read on for the VW press release.

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