Central Washington Biodiesel will focus on using Washington-produced vegetable oil to produce biodiesel, and we will target agricultural markets as consumers of our biodiesel.  Off-road agricultural and construction equipment produce far more air pollutants than over-the-road diesel engines. 

In addition to its environmental benefits, biodiesel is also seen as a potential benefit for U.S. and regional agriculture, which currently has excess production capacity and faces competition from countries with lower costs of production.

Oilseed crops represent possible alternative crops in our area, while in the U.S. Midwest and the Canadian Plains soybeans and canola are already mainstream crops. Biodiesel is widely available in the soybean growing regions of the upper Midwest, as shown in the map below.

Biodiesel made from US-grown vegetable oils helps reduce fossil carbon dioxide emissions and provides an important additional market for US farmers.

We are committed to helping grow a sustainable regional biodiesel industry using as few government subsidies as possible.

One of the cheapest - but most environmentally damaging - biodiesel sources is palm oil.  Palm oil is grown in the tropics, where tropical rainforests are being destroyed for palm plantations. Biofuels like biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol help combat global warming because they contain recycled carbon and because they replace fossil fuels, which contain fossil carbon.

Through Central Washington Biodiesel LLC, we aim to help control global warming and maximize benefits to the economy of Central and Eastern Washington and to the state as a whole.