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

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Biodiesel production down from record peaks late last year

Biodiesel Magazine
By The National Biodiesel Board March 21, 2012

The U.S. biodiesel industry produced 135 million gallons of fuel in the first two months of 2012, according to new numbers released by the EPA Wednesday.

The volume is an increase over the same period last year, when production totaled less than 80 million gallons. But it is down from the record production late last year when the industry exceeded 100 million gallons per month for five consecutive months and reached a peak of 160 million gallons in December.

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