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Biodiesel
and Ethanol Fuels Marketing Awards Announced
Posted 12 January, 2012
Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey announced that Mulgrew
Oil
Company of Dubuque and W & H Cooperative of Humboldt are the
2012
winners of the Secretary’s Biodiesel and Ethanol Marketing
Awards. The awards were created by the Iowa Department of
Agriculture and Land Stewardship to recognize fuel marketers that have
gone above and beyond in their efforts to promote and sell renewable
fuels.
“Iowa is fortunate to have retailers like W & H
Cooperative and Mulgrew Oil Company that make the extra effort to
market and promote the home-grown fuels we produce in this state and
make them available to customers,” Northey said. “Both
winners
have gone to great lengths to make biodiesel and ethanol available to
Iowa drivers.”
The Secretary’s Ethanol and Biodiesel Marketing
Awards were designed to recognize businesses that market the renewable
fuels they have available through creative efforts including, but not
limited to: hosting special events highlighting their renewable fuels,
development of creative signage, initiation of new advertisements or
marketing efforts, and dramatically increase renewable fuel
availability.
The winners were announced and recognized during
the Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Stores of Iowa Annual
Meeting
in Des Moines on Jan. 10th. The Petroleum Marketers and
Convenience Stores of Iowa (PMCI) is a non-profit state trade
association serving the needs of independent petroleum marketers and
convenience store owners throughout the state of Iowa.
Biodiesel
Jim Mulgrew of Mulgrew Oil Company is the 2012 Secretary’s Biodiesel
Marketing Award winner.
Under
his leadership, Mulgrew Oil has made a long-term commitment to
biodiesel and made significant investments to install necessary
infrastructure and make multiple biodiesel blends available.
Mulgrew has also installed heated storage tanks so that biodiesel can
be sold year-round and they priced biodiesel competitively to encourage
customers to choose this home-grown, renewable fuel.
Mulgrew was nominated for the award by Grant Kimberly, the Directory of
Market Development for the Iowa Soybean Association.
Ethanol
Greg Emick of W & H Cooperative in Humboldt is the 2012
Secretary’s Ethanol Marketing Award winner.
Emick
has installed blender pumps, which allow customers to choose from a
variety of ethanol blends, at all three of his Cenex fuel retail
locations. He has made E15, a fuel blend with 15 percent
ethanol
that only recently has been approved for all 2001 vehicles and newer,
at all the pumps.
Emick also worked with the Iowa Corn Growers
Association, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and the Iowa Renewable Fuels
Association to hold “grand opening” events for each of the new blender
pumps.
Emick was nominated for the award by Dale
Boeckman, who is on the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Marketers
and Convenience Stores of Iowa, and by the Iowa Corn Growers
Association.
Renewable Fuels Industry Overview
Iowa leads the
nation in the production of ethanol and biodiesel. According
to
the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, Iowa has 41 ethanol refineries
with the capacity to produce nearly 3.7 billion gallons
annually.
Iowa also has 12 biodiesel refineries with a combined annual capacity
of over 315 million gallons.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels
Infrastructure Program offers cost-share grants for the installation of
E85 dispensers, blender pumps, biodiesel dispensers, and biodiesel
storage facilities. The grant program is managed by Iowa
Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and more information can
be found on the Department’s website at www.IowaAgriculture.gov.
“Iowa
is truly the national leader in renewable fuels, and that would not be
possible without support from the Petroleum Marketers and Convenience
Stores of Iowa and its retail members across the state that market
these home-grown fuels,” Northey said.
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