Best Way to Keep it Green if You Have to Drive

Austin Biofuels

Got a diesel car or truck? Want to give Bush & Co. one less reason to forcefully bogart Iraq's oil? Check out Austin Biofuels. This local startup has been slinging biodiesel – a clean, renewable fuel you can pump straight into any diesel vehicle – since 2003, when they were making the stuff out back from restaurant grease. Today they've almost singlehandedly made Austin the city with the most public biodiesel pumps in the country. ABF's three visionary founders – whose side gigs include soap-making, beer-brewing, and mechanical engineering – realized that there were lots of big biodiesel plants in the works, but nowhere for people to buy the fuel. Today, with the help of Austin-based Triple S Petroleum, which operates the Signature Austin convenience stores, there are 19 pumps dispensing B20 (20% biodiesel 80% petroleum) in Austin, in addition to ABF's four B99 and B100 pumps.

Austin Biofuels
512/677-3231
www.austinbiofuels.com