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Biofuel Expands in SC

Joe Renwick
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

While battery power has been receiving the most press lately when it comes to moving vehicles around, another form of clean energy has been quietly becoming more popular.  Over the past several years, our next guest’s biofuel company has grown from a small facility in Winnsboro to another in Aiken County, SC and one in Tennessee.

Mike Switzer interviews Joe Renwick, founder and co-owner of Green Energy BioFuel, now headquartered in Warrenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.