A phoenix rises from the biofuel
Our Business Monday cover story on May 19 is about the potential use of Kentucky farm products like sweet sorghum to make ethanol, a gasoline additive that can reduce the demand for oil.
As we have mentioned before, there are three guys from Lexington — brothers Josh and Tomas Endicott and their business partner Ian Hill — who are way ahead of the curve on this thing.
Their company, SeQuential Biofuels LLC, has been producing bio-diesel fuel for customers in Washington and Oregon for several years.
Now they’ve won a Phoenix Award — dubbed “the Brownfields equivalent of Hollywood’s Oscar” — for improving the environment.
SeQuential took an abandoned gasoline station in Salem, Oregon, that had contaminated the ground — a so-called brownfield — and rebuilt it into an environmentally friendly biofuel station.
It even has a convenience store with a “green” roof that uses solar power and solar heating, and offers locally grown products. The station employs 10 and yields $4,000 a year in taxes.
Every city could use a SeQuential.
