Blame Biodiesel

[Cybergal]

Next to blame for fuel costs may be biodiesel

7/27/08

WASHINGTON -- For now, it's ethanol that's under fire. Biodiesel's turn may be coming.
In 2009, the first mandate for biodiesel takes effect. Refiners will be required to use at least 500 million gallons next year and 1 billion gallons annually by 2012.
That could mean higher fuel costs for truckers and higher vegetable oil prices for food processors, and either industry could try to get the mandate rolled back, just as food makers and livestock groups are trying to do this year with the mandate for corn-based ethanol.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/p...807270320/1003

[379 Peterbilt]

So true. It take more fuel to grow and harvest corn, than what the offset saves.

Nothing like burning food.

[Cybergal]

Soybean oil prices put squeeze on biodiesel

7/27/08
The News Journal, DE

Large steel tanks sat empty and quiet last week inside a Clayton fuel plant.
A small capped bottle on a laboratory counter still contains some kind of yellowish, oily substance, but there doesn't seem to be anyone studying what's inside. Only one employee was still around, and he mostly sits inside the office -- babysitting, as he put it.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/p...807270314/1003

[Omega]

hmmm....i think hydrogen fuel is a better idea.