Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Faces of Biofuels

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane February 8, 2011

A few weeks ago, Propel Fuels and Biofuels Digest undertook to discover, and publish, the stories of people that use renewable fuels. Too often, in our view, stories about renewable energy focus on oil companies, or the environmental establishment, or renewable energy producers, or financiers of fuel.

What do the actual customers believe? Why do they use renewable fuels - motivated by green concerns, price, location, the cool factor, or something else. We want to know why, and know them. We’ll continue to publish this as an occasional series, and we are deeply appreciative to the team at Propel Fuels, who have helped to bring the stories of their customers to national media for the first time.

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