Keep up the excellent work.

Sara

Keep up the excellent work.

Sara

Here are some replies from the biofuels4oregon listserv:

Oregon’s Business Energy Tax Credit is great. By far and away the best

program in existence.

Main Oregon DOE website here: http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/index.shtml

Business Energy Tax Credit (aka BET-C) info here:

http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/CONS/BUS/BETC.shtml

The BET-C is simple. On any capital project you file for the BET-C with a

simple form. They approve it, you do the project, and the state offers a

50% Income Tax credit on the project. They also allow a pass through so

that a cash strapped business can sell the BET-C for cash up front with the

project. This makes the addition of a biofuel tank really attractive to

existing fuel providers. In particular if they are doing work on their

tank, dispensers, etc….. the construction project can easily add a BET-C

pump and tank and reduce the overall cost enough to pay back even with a

slower moving biofuel product.

Mark Fitz

StarOilco

The bio-fuels industry is a three legged stool where the industry has

focused on only two: production and marketing (mostly wholesale).

Distribution and infrastructure is lacking everywhere and when the talk

comes around to distribution, again, government and big oil skip bio-diesel

and ethanol, moving to a high profile, highly regulated (the better to

control you with), and therefore high $$$, distribution system like the

“Hydrogen Highway.”

There are general incentives for increasing alternative energy production

and distribution systems (BETC, Blender’s Credits, etc.) but no specific

incentives to support development of bio-fuel retail distribution and

delivery. Star Oil, Whole Energy, and SeQuential may have better information

on the subject for you.

How does one deal with the “Chicken and Egg” paradox with regard to

bio-fuels? How do bio-fuel distributors develop and sustain enough volume in

the market to become profitable before the start up capital runs out?

Especially, when as soon as you open your doors every petro dealer in your

neighborhood will do everything in its power, with the backing of their big

oil suppliers, to undercut you to keep its strangle hold on the fuel market.

If you are old enough to remember “Gas Wars,” this fight will be much more

intense than the internal disputes among oil companies for who gets to

control what market share.

Jeff, GO Bio Co.

P.S. The Gas Wars are over. They won. Guess who lost?

Here are some replies from the biofuels4oregon listserv:

Oregon’s Business Energy Tax Credit is great. By far and away the best

program in existence.

Main Oregon DOE website here: http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/index.shtml

Business Energy Tax Credit (aka BET-C) info here:

http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/CONS/BUS/BETC.shtml

The BET-C is simple. On any capital project you file for the BET-C with a

simple form. They approve it, you do the project, and the state offers a

50% Income Tax credit on the project. They also allow a pass through so

that a cash strapped business can sell the BET-C for cash up front with the

project. This makes the addition of a biofuel tank really attractive to

existing fuel providers. In particular if they are doing work on their

tank, dispensers, etc….. the construction project can easily add a BET-C

pump and tank and reduce the overall cost enough to pay back even with a

slower moving biofuel product.

Mark Fitz

StarOilco

The bio-fuels industry is a three legged stool where the industry has

focused on only two: production and marketing (mostly wholesale).

Distribution and infrastructure is lacking everywhere and when the talk

comes around to distribution, again, government and big oil skip bio-diesel

and ethanol, moving to a high profile, highly regulated (the better to

control you with), and therefore high $$$, distribution system like the

“Hydrogen Highway.”

There are general incentives for increasing alternative energy production

and distribution systems (BETC, Blender’s Credits, etc.) but no specific

incentives to support development of bio-fuel retail distribution and

delivery. Star Oil, Whole Energy, and SeQuential may have better information

on the subject for you.

How does one deal with the “Chicken and Egg” paradox with regard to

bio-fuels? How do bio-fuel distributors develop and sustain enough volume in

the market to become profitable before the start up capital runs out?

Especially, when as soon as you open your doors every petro dealer in your

neighborhood will do everything in its power, with the backing of their big

oil suppliers, to undercut you to keep its strangle hold on the fuel market.

If you are old enough to remember “Gas Wars,” this fight will be much more

intense than the internal disputes among oil companies for who gets to

control what market share.

Jeff, GO Bio Co.

P.S. The Gas Wars are over. They won. Guess who lost?