janelane wrote:

The bio-diesel today is being sold for approximately four dollars and fifty cents per gallon.

This would have a much more staggering impact right now if we drove more diesel cars (which can take either regular diesel or biodiesel).

This is also an old figure (1996) but it certainly indicates that biodiesel isn't too far out of reach given today's gas prices. Maybe soon we'll be panning the importance of all that gulfshore refining capability we were so worried about with Rita.

-janelane, bio-friendly

I've got a friend, Vered, over at homeschoolexcursions.org who has just modified her vehicle. I love this woman, she is a person that just doesn't talk - she does.

She arranged for our homeschool group to go to Marietta, Georgia not long ago for a class on veggie cars. They are really cool. I guess we have just always been taught it has to be oil -oil -OILl, or maybe ethanol which costs too much to make..or some other excuse. The modifications are not that big a deal! I mean, it was explained to 8 year olds in a short class and they got it, lol.

She had to buy a diesel and her brother converted it. A lot of places around Atlanta and NW GA told her they'd be glad to save her their fry oil for free, but, as she pointed out, you can now buy a gallon of peanut oil cheaper than gas. She gets free used oil, and just filters it and runs it.

Heck, they had Willie Nelson on the Bill Mahler show talking about his bus - he runs peanut oil. Also both he and his wife have veggiecars. He said that the engines were originally designed to run peanut oil. Peanut oil IS a renewable energy source.

RE: BIO-DIESEL: A Sensible Alternative?