Welcome to Thumb BioEnergy

The U.S. consumes somewhere around 65 billion gallons of diesel fuel with about 38 billion gallons used for off road purposes. This compares to about 140 billion gallons of gasoline used. Current biodiesel production would provide approximately 0.5% of total diesel use. The ethanol industry will provide about 2.8 percent of the total fuel used in the gasoline market for the U.S. 

Most of these fuels are imported petrofuels (purchased from countries who do not like us which add to our negative balance of payments and when we burn the petrofuels they cause environmental damage.

Locally Produced Biofuels

• Reduce foreign oil dependency
• Protect our environment
• Create Local Jobs

Using Local Feedstocks

• Waste food and wastes from food processing
• Corn stover, straw and other cellulose materials
• Waste vegetable oil (WVO) and local soybeans