Website aims to forge ethanol partnerships

DailyComet.com (Louisiana)
By Kathrine Schmidt, Staff Writer
Published: Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 12:55 a.m.

HOUMA — A businessman from New Iberia is starting a national website that aims to match renewable-energy investors with local landowners and farmers.

Kevin Caffery believes the state of the ethanol industry, which makes fuels from plant matter, is not unlike the infancy of the oil-and-gas industry a century ago.

Caffery has worked in a wide range of occupations. He's an abstractor, handling and negotiating land leases for the oil-and-gas industry, but he's also worked as a newspaper reporter and runs a company that sells coffee tables made of petrified wood. But he, along with business partners Ted and Kent Himel, of Luling's Himel Auto Parts, started the $7,000 website as a low-cost way to bolster what they see as an important new area of commerce.

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