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2009

Green gas, desert waves, and nevada sails - 30 April 2009
Bucolic Carson Valley is the last place you might expect to find the latest in green fuels and cutting-edge manufacturing technology. These three Minden businesses will make you think otherwise. (click here to go to the Nevada Magazine website for complete article)

2008

With Excuses All Gone, Americans Have Been Paying Too Much for Groceries - Joe Jobe - 04 December 2008
The holiday season is a time when millions of Americans renew their community spirit and give their time and resources to help feed their struggling neighbors. This year, many factors have contributed to swell the ranks of those families in need and they feel the sting most harshly at the grocery check-out counter. (click here for complete article)

Gassing Up Green - 13 November 2008
Visiting a gas station has always felt like a less-than-altruistic move. You arrive by car, help yourself to some fossil fuels, and maybe grab a Styrofoam cup of coffee on your way out. (click here to go to the Plenty Magazine website for complete article)

Safety Street new venue big hit - 02 November 2008
Vanya Gerber, a 4-year-old pirate, didn’t waste much time once inside the fire station used for Friday’s Trick or Treat Safety Street...Sharkey’s Casino, Walmart and Bently Biofuels were just a few of the businesses participating. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required)

A new kind of gas station - 09 October 2008
Bently Biofuels opened its biofuels gas station and convenience store on Sept. 30 in Minden. (click here to go to newsreview.com for complete article - published in the Reno News & Review)

It’s Not Just the Fuel that’s Green -- Bently Biofuels Opens Eco-Friendly Biofuels Station - 01 October 2008
MINDEN, Nev. – Motorists who want to fill up with cleaner burning, domestically produced fuel have a new option in Nevada. (click here to view the National Biodiesel Board NEWS Release)

Bently Biofuels opens on Buckeye - 30 September 2008
A working monument of American innovation opened off Buckeye Road in Minden on Tuesday. Bently Biofuels Outpost is Nevada’s first full-sized alternative fuel station and LEED-certified convenience store. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required)

County gets creative with saving gas - 07 August 2008
With gas prices hovering around $4, Douglas County officials are coming up with creative ways to conserve taxpayer funds ... County officials are also planning to use biodiesel and ethanol products to fuel some of its fleet when Bently Biofuels Company opens an alternative fueling station in Minden this fall. ( published in the 01 Aug 2008 Reno Gazette Journal )

Biofuels not to blame - 11 June 2008
Amid accusations that alternative fuel sources such as ethanol and biodiesel are responsible for high food prices, employees of Minden-based Bently Biofuels are sticking up for themselves and their industry. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

LEED-certified gas station - 28 April 2008
Biodiesel and ethanol blends will flow from the pumps at a gas station in Minden when Bently Biofuels opens a service station and convenience store this fall. (click here to go to nnbw.biz for complete article - published in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly)

Nevada’s green gas station - 20 March 2008
Add convenience store and biofuel “gas” station to the ever increasing list of LEED-certified buildings underway in Nevada. (click here to go to newsreview.com for complete article - published in the Reno News & Review)

2007

Touchy-feely energy - 27 September 2007
Solar Tours of local sites give hands-on experiences with sustainable energy (click here to go to newsreview.com for complete article - published in the Reno News & Review)

Bently Biofuels to open new alternative fuel station - 19 September 2007
Add convenience store and biofuel “gas” station to the ever increasing list of LEED-certified buildings underway in Nevada. (click here for complete article - published in the Nevada Appeal)

Governor starts rural tour by topping off with Bently Biodiesel * - 31 July 2007
Gov. Jim Gibbons gave Bently Biofuels biodiesel a whiff, but didn’t show any interest in taking a drink on Monday during a tour of the Minden plant. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

2006

Big trouble on the horizon spurs a biofuels initiative - 02 October 2006
Carlo Luri, general manager of Bently Biofuels, tells of the day in 2002 when Don Bently met him in the company lunchroom and said, "We're going to have big trouble." (click here to go to nnbw.biz for complete article - published in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly)

Inventive vision built an empire but biodiesel fuels operations - 02 October 2006
Don Bently's inventive streak took hold at the age of 3. He recalls how he and a brother took apart an alarm clock to see how it worked, then spent three weeks figuring out how to get the parts back together again. (click here to go to nnbw.biz for complete article - published in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly)

Used cooking oil finds new life as fuel * - 20 August 2006
It takes one week in a half-acre area in Minden for used cooking oil from restaurants to be processed into biodiesel fuel. Now contained within that same half-acre is the means to pump it into a diesel-powered vehicle. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

Biodiesel star of Bently open house * - 11 January 2006
More than 700 Carson Valley residents turned out to learn about biodiesel fuel at Bently Biofuels' open house Saturday.
Residents were curious to hear about the biodiesel process, when biodiesel was going to be available and how much it was going to cost. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

2005

Bently biodiesel plant opens * - 23 November 2005
Imagine a world where consumers won't have to depend on foreign oil to fuel their vehicles. The fuel wouldn't pollute the environment and would be manufactured from either recycled materials or from plants grown in a nearby field. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

Minden's Bently makes present of future * - 30 October 2005
At age 81, Minden businessman and inventor Don Bently finds his future rooted firmly in the past. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

Bently property to be protected as open space * - 19 October 2005
Douglas County inventor and industrialist Don Bently decided to provide the residents of western Nevada with a present for his 81st birthday. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

Minden firm builds first plant to convert cooking oil to diesel * - 24 April 2005
Bently Agrowdynamics will open its first biofuel production plant in Minden this spring.
The plant will produce biodiesel from recycled cooking oil and locally grown canola seed oil. (click here to go to recordcourier.com for complete article - reader registration may be required )

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