BioFuels Journal spoke with Joe Jobe, chief executive officer of the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) on the first day (Jan. 8) of the 2010 NBB conference and expo in Dallas, TX.
He spoke about the failure of the $1 Per gallon biodiesel blender's credit to be renewed 12-31-09 and what is currently being done to put it back on the books retroactively to spur the industry on.
Highlights From the Podcast
• The House passed the $1 per gallon biodiesel blender's credit but the Senate failed to pass the credit by the end of 2009, effectively stalling the entire industry.
• A Jobs package may include it or another bill.
• The credit is expected to be retroactive to 1-1-2010.
• Some biodiesel producers on partial level. Many are idle.
• Bills in House and Senate for a five-year biodiesel producer credit to help stabilize the growth of the domestic biodiesel industry and maintain the integrity of the credit.
• Biodiesel supporters should reach out to members of Congress to co-sponsor the producer credit.
• RFS2 means vast majority of feedstocks qualify as advanced biofuel, and therefore is an advanced biofuel currently exists on a commercial scale.
Biography
Joe Jobe is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Biodiesel Board(NBB).
The NBB is the national trade association representing the biodiesel industry as the coordinating body for biodiesel research and development in the US.
Its members include feedstock producers and processors, soybean commodity boards, biodiesel suppliers, and fuel marketers and distributors.
Jobe has been with the NBB since 1997, and has served as CEO since January 1999.
Jobe's duties included serving as the principle investigator for the $2.2 million biodiesel health effects testing program.
He became interested in agricultural, environmental, and energy issues growing up on a farm in central Missouri.
Prior to working for the NBB, Jobe was a fraud investigator for the Missouri Attorney General's Office.
Prior to that he worked as a certified public accountant.
For more information, call the NBB at 573-635-3983.
