AP publishes summary of waste cooking oil biodiesel; US supply forecast at 771 Mgy

The Associated Press published a summary of the state of biodiesel production from waste cooking oil, including the proposed Bermuda Biodiesel Project that would produce 500,000 gallons of biodiesel from cooking oil collected from 400 local restaurants. Based on the output from the proposed Bermuda project, Biofuels Digest estimates that the potential US supply of biodiesel from US restaurants is 711 Mgy. There are 569,000 restaurants in the US.

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