Editing Mount Vernon, Indiana (section)

==Industry==
Mount Vernon is the headquarters of a small oil refinery owned by the [[CountryMark]] agricultural cooperative. Originally built in 1940, it processes more than 20,000 barrels of local crude oil per day.

A former [[GE Plastics]] Plant is located here, now owned by Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation ([[SABIC]]). [[Vectren|Vectren Energy's]] [[A.B. Brown Generating Station]] is located 8 miles east the city.

Mount Vernon is home to two biofuels plants, Abengoa of Indiana and Aventine Renewable Energy. These two facilities helped make Mount Vernon an important energy exporter. The Aventine plant had been developed via partnership with Consolidated Grain and Barge, another company at the port, and was the largest operating [[ethanol]] plant east of the Mississippi River. Its nameplate was 110 million gallons of ethanol per year. It was closed in 2012, but it has since resumed operation under [[Valero Energy]] ownership.

BWX Technologies (BWXT - formerly Babcock & Wilcox) has a large facility to make large pressure vessels and large metal tubes in Mt. Vernon. This facility produced many components for commercial nuclear plants from the 1960s through 1980s. It now makes heavy-pressure vessels for both commercial and non-commercial power plants. This facility has the largest loading and unloading capacity (1000 tons) on an inland waterway within {{Convert|500|mi|km|abbr=out}}.

The Mount Vernon port is the largest port for coal shipments in the U.S. and the 7th-largest inland port. The [[John T. Myers Locks and Dam]], located {{Convert|13|mi|km|abbr=out}} SW of Mount Vernon, was constructed to improve navigation and flood control on the Ohio River. It is important to shipping for the region's river-based industries.