Ethanol Blog

Biodiesel continues to move slowly in and out of the Northeast in the wake of Hurricane Sandy which slammed into the East Coast on Oct. 31.

"The infrastructure constraints are problematic for all fuels and products moving into and out of the area," Kenneth "Pete" Moss, biodiesel market analyst and president of Frazier, Barnes & Associates, Memphis, Tenn., told Telvent DTN on Friday.

"This has been compounded by the winter storm that followed Sandy. The bottlenecks should continue to recede daily as the infrastructure is repaired and electricity is restored to all of the affected areas."

"We are not likely to know its full impact for some time," Wayne Lee of Lee Enterprises Consulting Group, Sherwood, Ark., told Telvent DTN this morning. "My hope is that the EPA and (biodiesel) producers in other parts of the country will all be involved in assisting" the Northeast.

Myke Feinman can be reached at myke.feinman@telventdtn.com.

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