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March 9, 2007
Get Your B20
According to the Daily Journal of Commerce, the Jubitz Travel Center on Tuesday became the first truck stop in Oregon to sell B20 biodiesel.
The retail and commercial fuel station, located east of Interstate 5 near exit 307 in Portland, has transitioned all of its retail diesel pumps to the 20 percent biodiesel blend four months ahead of a July 1 start for the city of Portland’s renewable fuels mandate.
The mandate, passed last year by the Portland City Council, will require all fuel sold within the city limits to contain at least 5 percent biodiesel and 10 percent ethanol by July 1.
“While it may be early in terms of a widespread adoption, it’s clear that in the future B5 and B20 will be part of the fuel landscape, so we wanted to broaden our product offering,” said Mark Gram, vice president and chief financial officer of Jubitz.
So the private sector took government intervention and turned it into a market opportunity...
Posted by Chris Smith at 7:32 AM
Comments
March 9, 2007 9:53 AM
pdxbiodiesel Says:
This is really funny, because Jubitz was one of the biggest FIGHTERS of that mandate. They claimed that it would destroy their business as all the truckers would stop buying at Jubitz and instead go to Washington...
There are other biodiesel pumps around. Jubitz is just the first "truck stop".
March 11, 2007 5:16 PM
Adron Says:
It's a case of making lemonade from lemons instead of being stuck with lemons.
Sometimes you have to roll with the punches. Not sure why they pushed back against it though. Especially in this part of the country. It just makes good sense as long as it isn't unreasonably expensive to make the change...
But I digress... The Government encouraged over reliance on trucking in the first place, it's nice to see them skampering about in a meager attempt to fix the problem they are mostly responsible for.
March 11, 2007 5:32 PM
Adron Says:
...oh jeez, I didn't catch everything in the article though, and now MUST rant.
Who's the "I jumped on board with Bush Jr & the Ethanol craze" person here in PDX? WTF are they pushing Ethanol for? That is one of the most environmentally least useful fuels for out here in the NW! When one takes into account the infrastructure and creation requirements Ethanol is just fuel suicide for your autos.
I'd love to let out a real scream for that one. I'm sure some compromise had to be made with somebody to let that ridiculousness slip in...
...I had to make a comment though. The Ethanol fuel mix is a nightmare waiting to happen: Increased fuel costs (though its subsidized, I guess that's just fine right?), increased degradation of engine performance, degradation of mileage, a few corn farmers make more money, we have increased cost to market, increased diesel fuel usage by increasing containers needed for shipping by train & tractor trailer, increased forests felled for corn farming....
Ethanol == BAD IDEA.
blagh. I'm now officially pissed. I can understand the biodiesel argument, but the ethanol? Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge about this should know it is a BAD idea.
I'm done ranting though... I'll go park my car, since it usually stays parked most of the weeks I'm a very fortunate person... and find some damn 100 octane jet fuel to burn so I know I still get the performance I'm supposedly gauranteed. So now I HAVE to be less environmentally friendly because of stupid legislation. I guess at least half (the biodeisel) legislation is supposed to make up for it. :(
