Registration is now open for the 2016 National Biodiesel Conference & Expo in Tampa, Florida! This event is a can’t-miss in the world of biodiesel. The conference features networking and educational opportunities that aren’t available anywhere else. Register at www.BiodieselConference.org.

President and CEO Robert Moore announced publicly that he will retire in July 2016 from the company that he’s led since 2008. A native of Maine, Moore joined Dead River Company in 1995 as general counsel and vice president of administration, later becoming senior vice president of petroleum. A graduate of Trinity College and the University of Maine School of ...

The Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition on Wednesday honored National Biodiesel Board Vice President Anne Steckel with its Initiative of the Year Award for her work promoting biodiesel on the local and national level. Steckel was presented with the award at GWRCCC’s 3rd Annual Awards Luncheon at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va. The award recognizes an alternative ...

A recent national survey shows that biodiesel is an increasingly popular alternative fuel and that support for a Renewable Fuel Standard is on the rise. With just one month until the Environmental Protection Agency releases a final RFS rule, 80% of voters support a renewable fuel standard. “This is just more evidence that the EPA should strengthen biodiesel volumes in ...

Representative Bill Flores (Texas-17) and 183 other members of Congress sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy expressing concerns over the proposed 2016 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements.  EPA’s proposal would threaten consumers and our economy by raising ethanol mandates to potentially harmful levels, according to API.  “There’s growing, bipartisan recognition in Congress of the negative consequences that higher ...

  As the end of another calendar year bears down on us, many of our industry trade associations are working on their budgets for 2016, developing new programs for the offing in the coming year, prepping to do battle in their state houses, reminding members (and non-members) of the good work the association has done in 2015 and, in many ...

Like many of you, I have heard (almost on a daily basis) about customers calling their oil dealer or a mechanical company about converting from oil to gas heat. This of course was due to the extremely high cost of fuel oil or the gas equipment rebates being offer in some states. I’m trying to make sense of this, especially ...

Operational realities of the propane business can give heating oil dealers who are new to it plenty to reckon with, says an expert. By Stephen Bennett Getting company registration Indonesia and launching a propane business is a six- to eight-year proposition and, “in the first three years you’re going to bleed money,” says Sean Cota, managing director of Cetane Associates, ...

By Stephen Bennett   Fuel oil dealers and fuel oil customers don’t see fuel oil the same way. That’s one of many findings from a survey of dealers and of heating oil customers conducted earlier this year by Warm Thoughts Communications, a research and marketing firm in Clifton, N.J. The survey results are the basis of “The 2015 Consumer Research ...

NOTE: Survey year altered to better reflect actual Data set. For example, before the alteration this would have been the 2016 Sourcebook Survey. It’s that time of year again, when Fuel Oil News provides its readers with its annual sourcebook survey. The goal is to offer a snapshot of our readership (relative to the specific respondents that year) that represents ...