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To: mac_truck

Funded mostly by every level of government: city, state and federal.

“Its development was supported by a $75 million funding award from the Department of Defense; fuel purchase commitments from FedEx and Southwest Airlines; more than $2 million in infrastructure improvements funded by the town of Lakeview and Business Oregon; and about $300 million in tax-exempt economic development bonds issued in 2018 through the state of Oregon.”


11 posted on 01/08/2023 11:58:33 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: Doctor Congo
"fuel purchase commitments from FedEx and Southwest Airlines"

You KNOW that they didn't enter into those agreements voluntarily. The government was "suggesting" that they buy that fuel.

Maybe buying and burning a few gallons of the stuff wins them a few brownie points from ignorant people. "Oh, looky, Maude...they are saving the earth by using biofuels in our jet. We are such good people to fly on a bio fueled jet"

18 posted on 01/08/2023 12:13:31 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beake)
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To: Doctor Congo

Here is an interesting article about this place: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2021/the-curious-case-of-red-rock-biofuels/

THE CURIOUS CASE OF RED ROCK BIOFUELS
For a variety of reasons, not the least of which are the technological limitations, the promise of making supposedly low carbon renewable fuels from woody biomass has been a hard to attain objective for the aviation biofuels sector.

A curious case study in efforts to reach this aviation biofuels objective is that of Red Rock Biofuels. A company that was founded in 2011, and the owner of the still as yet incomplete and unoperational bioenergy refinery of the same name in Lakeview, Oregon, Red Rock Biofuels has been an active player in the promotion of what aviation industry lobbyists and policy specialists call Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF in industry vernacular).

... more at link...


19 posted on 01/08/2023 12:13:55 PM PST by Doctor Congo
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