Released August 2002
Minnesota is the only state that uses oxygenated gasoline statewide. Several pipelines serve the state's two refineries while several other pipelines traverse the state, carrying crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied petroleum gas from Canada to markets in other Midwest states. Nearly 68 percent of the homes in Minnesota use natural gas as their primary heating fuel, while 12 percent use electricity. General Overview Population: 4,972,294 (2001) ranked 21th Per Capita Income: $32,791 (2001) ranked 9th Total Energy Consumption: 1.7 quadrillion Btu (1999), ranked 21st Per Capita Energy Consumption: 351 million Btu (1999), ranked 26th Total Petroleum Consumption: 14.0 million gallons per day (1999), ranked 20th Gasoline Consumption: 6.9 million gallons per day (1999), ranked 18th Distillate Fuel Consumption: 2.7 million gallons per day (1999), ranked 21st Liquefied Petroleum Gas Consumption: 1.0 million gallons per day (1999), ranked 14th Jet Fuel Consumption: 1.4 million gallons per day (1999), ranked 13th Petroleum Supply (Upstream) Crude Oil Proved Reserves: None Crude Oil Production: None Total Producing Oil Wells: None Rotary Rigs in Operation: None Transportation Major Pipelines: Crude Oil - Lakehead, Minnesota, Portal, Koch.
- Lakehead, Minnesota, Portal, Koch. Product - BP Amoco, Williams.
- BP Amoco, Williams. Liquefied Petroleum Gas - Alliance, Cochin, Lakehead, MAPCO.
Ports & Waterway Systems: Upper Mississippi River System; Minnesota River.
Refining & Marketing (Downstream) Refineries: Distillation capacity of 335,000 Barrels Per Calendar Day (BCD) (2002) Flint Hills resources LP (Saint Paul @ 265,000 BCD)
Marathon Ashland Petro LLC (Saint Paul Park @ 70,000 BCD) Gasoline Stations: 3,609 outlets (2002), or about 2.1 percent of U.S. total. Sources and notes: Energy Information Administration, Bureau of Census, and National Petroleum News "Market Facts 2001." Rankings include the District of Columbia.
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A Sample of Biodiesel.
On September 29, Minnesota will become the first U.S. state to require diesel fuel sold at filling stations in the state to be blended with 2% biodiesel.  This follows the statewide mandate requiring ethanol to be mixed into gasoline—also a first by Minnesota—which took effect in 1997.  The biodiesel mandate was approved by the 2002 state legislature, and was sent to then-Governor Jesse Ventura.  Ventura allowed the bill to become law without his signature, stating his concern that the increased cost of fuel would affect the trucking industry—potentially spurring inflation—though he felt that this was nearly balanced by the positive impact the mandate would have on agriculture in the state.

The law had an initial target date of July 1, 2005, but would only go into effect once production capacity exceeded 8 million gallons (30 millon liters) per year.  At the beginning of 2005, the state was only capable of producing three million gallons each year, but two new facilities in Albert Lea and Brewster increased state capacity twentyfold when they opened this summer.  Each of the two new plants can produce 30 million gallons (113 ML) annually.  Agriculture Commissioner Gene Hugoson verified production levels in the August 29 edition of the Minnesota State Register, meaning that the law will become effective following a month-long notification period.

The prices of diesel and biodiesel have equalized, so the negative economic impact initially feared by Ventura are not expected to come to pass and the effect should be pennies more or less per gallon.  Despite the dramatic increase in capacity, biodiesel production is not yet a broad solution to shortages or high prices—in 2001, the state used 14.3 million gallons of petroleum every day.