A report from the state’s General Administration (GA) earlier this spring found that only 2.1% of government diesel purchases in the second half of 2008 were biodiesel. The GA recommended delaying the 1 June target for a year.
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, who raised the state’s biodiesel targets in part to help cultivate a local biodiesel industry, tells The Everett Herald newspaper, “I don't want to lose the momentum that we've built up.