A South Carolina petroleum retailer now makes a 20 percent biodiesel blend (B20) available at 35 public pumps statewide, signifying a trend of increasing availability to consumers nationally.

The Spinx Co. has opened the locations throughout upper South Carolina. Thirteen of the B20 pumps are in Greenville, S.C., giving the city’s consumers a new level of convenience for choosing B20.
Of The Spinx Co.’s 35 locations, 11 are truck accessible. That’s significant because the nation’s truckers have shown substantial interest in biodiesel. As a result, NBB has established “Biotrucker.com” as a Web resource for truckers to find biodiesel.
A similar move is happening in other cities as well – Austin, Texas, is now home to 33 B20 pumps, while Las Vegas recently opened 16 pumps carrying B5 (five percent biodiesel). A petroleum distributor in the Boise, Idaho area plans to open B10 pumps at 11 of its Treasure Valley area convenience stores in September.
“I see the beginnings of a real transformation in the B20 retail market,” said Joe Jobe, CEO of the National Biodiesel Board. “We’re starting to see a higher concentration of public pumps carrying biodiesel, which means more availability to truckers and all consumers. Cities like Greenville and Austin are leading a fuel revolution with B20.”
A big driving factor in the opening of the retail pumps is a federal tax incentive that has been effective in lowering the price of biodiesel blends for consumers.