Owensboro Grain Company in Kentucky is now building a 22 million US$ biodiesel production plant that should open in June of 2007. With a capacity of some 50 million gallons of yearly biodiesel, it will become one of the largest biodiesel plants in the entire continental United States. Along with the expanding development and construction of biodiesel plants nationwide, Owensboro Grain is part of the nations estimate for another 50 plants by the end of next year, adding a total of 714 million gallons of biodiesel to our currently unsustainable fleet of petrol based fossil diesels. By the year 2015,...
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