i haven't seen those kinds of prices around here (SF Bay area) lately,
though commercially purchased BioD is currently still somewhat more
expensive than #2 by about 50% or more.
as for free, as others have pointed out, the source material has
gone from where restaurants used to have to pay to have it hauled away
to where renderer's are having to pay the restaurants for it now. unless
you happen to know someone who owns a restaurant, you're not likely to
get it for free anymore,... and you technically need a license (and
liability insurance) to even be able to load it up and haul it away.
as others have pointed out, none of this even considers all the
impacts of the increases on the cost of petrofuels and the impacts
that's had on the transportation of all the other materials, energy and
waste products associated with the production of BioD.
like we always say at work: "if it was easy, anyone could and would
do it."
cheers!
e
andrew strasfogel wrote:
$6/gal ??? WTF?!?!
If the source material is free, then why is the biodiesel so effin'
expensive??
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Alex Chamberlain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:40 AM, andrew strasfogel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So are their reputable companies in the big cities operating under
industrial economies of scale who are hauling away restaurants' fryer
grease
and turning it into bio diesel?
Dunno about anywhere else, but here in Oregon a company called
Sequential Biofuels has exclusive contracts with Burgerville (local
fast-food chain) and Kettle Chips (local but nationally distributed
potato-chip producer) to do just that with their used oil. They
supply all of the retail biodiesel pumps I know of in the Portland
area. Not that I've visited one of their pumps in quite a while,
unfortunately---I pass by one every night on the way home and the last
time I looked at the price it was approaching $6/gallon. (There was a
scraggly W123 sitting next to it, but unoccupied and not fueling up as
far as I could tell---perhaps its no doubt equally scraggly, bearded
owner abandoned it in despair?)
Alex "scraggly and bearded but too cheap for $6/gal BD" Chamberlain
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