Eco-business.com, 18 Apr 2011
Demand at Alpha Biofuels, which operates the two pump stations here and is the only firm producing the fuel for the domestic market, has dived in the past year. Its chief executive Allan Lim, 38, said it now tops up 200 tanks weekly, down from 1,000 in 2009. It had eight pump stations that year, but started to shut them down from June last year. ‘We believed Singaporeans would embrace our environmentally-friendly business, but we were wrong. Most will not go out of their way to buy the product.’ Full story