Robert King

Robert King.  Hawaii businessman Bob King is the principal founder and president of Pacific Biodiesel, Inc. and previous proprietor of King Diesel.  A diesel mechanic for thirty years, he owned and managed King Diesel, the Maui dealer for Cummins/Onan Generators, from 1981 until selling it in 2006 to focus on the biodiesel business.  Bob resides on Maui, where he founded one of the first commercial biodiesel processing plants in the U.S., an operation that also boasts the first retail biodiesel pump in the country.  Pacific Biodiesel owns and operates two such facilities in Hawaii, on the islands of Maui and Oahu.  Most of the Hawaii production is processed from waste vegetable oil as it was originally developed by King to alleviate the dumping of waste cooking oil in the Maui landfill.  The story and mission of Pacific Biodiesel has been recorded in a feature-length documentary, Revolution Green, by an independent filmmaker and is now available on dvd.