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BFJ.com Podcast with Lenny Carpenter, Managing Editor of The Jacobsen on the Future of the Biodiesel Industry

Date Posted: March 4, 2010


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Biofuels Journal spoke in Feburary with Lenny Carpenter, Managing Editor of The Jacobsen, a publication providing cash prices in the vegetable oils and B100 market.

Carpenter talked about the future of the biodiesel industry in the United States.

Highlights from the Podcast

• A blender's credit or producer's credit that is not just one year and renewable but runs five or 10 years.

• Carpenter said it is tough to get investment money for a 12-month project. Investors need five to 10 years so they know they can see a return on their investment.

Biography

Since April of 2007 Lenny Carpenter have been the Managing Editor of The Jacobsen Renewable Fuels, Vegetable Oils and Grain and Feed Ingredient Bulletins. He has spent more than 20 years in the Grain industry as a broker and mrchandiser with several companies including: John Stewart & Associates, Inc., AgMark Brokerage Services, Inc., CBH Commodities, Inc., Farmers Commodities Service, Inc. and Montgomery County Farm Bureau Co-operative, Inc.

He graduated from Ohio State University in 1983.

For further information, call 312-726-6600. Our website is www.thejacobsen.com

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