Biodiesel Energy Industry Sparks Interest in Maryland Soybeans

Larry Jarboe’s quest for energy independence began years ago in the mangrove swamps of the Florida Keys, with a 15-foot canoe he bought for $75 at Sears. He installed an electric trolling motor to chase lobsters and realized along the way that “it was a really great way to live and very clean.”

After that came the homemade electric riding lawnmower, the solar-powered electric Toyota MR2 with lightning bolt on the side (known as the “Green Hornet”), the electric bicycle and the wood-and-gas-powered sawmill. Now Jarboe, a Republican St. Mary’s County commissioner, has laid his hopes on a hard vegetable the size of a pencil eraser grown throughout Southern Maryland: the soybean.

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