The National Biodiesel Board will presumably be at the Sept. 25 Sacramento meeting.
I'm lead to believe that as recently as two weeks ago NBB's Mr. McMahon had prepared responses for CARB relative to biodiesel. CARB only recognizes biodiesel up to 20%, and then it is only considered an additive. Yet they fully recognize "green diesel," simply a low sulfur fossil fuel diesel. CARB has also aired concerns that biodiesel from different feedstocks meet rigourous emissions testing independently, not permitting all feedstocks simply falling under the general umbrella of "biodiesel." This would mean testing biodiesel emissions from each source yellow grease, rapeseed, coconut, palm, sunflower, etc. Also, call me cynical in part, but the Tier I and Tier II testing done on biodiesel used soybean as the feedstock. Coupling this with what appears to be major funding for the NBB by the soybean industry and there could be an awful lot of biodiesel feedstocks left out in the cold. Todd Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "jerry dycus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:17 PM Subject: [biofuel] Biodiesel, Biofuel workshop in Sacramento 9-25 > > Hi All, > Running through the Cal Energy Commission > website I noticed that there is a biodiesel/biofuel > workshop they are putting on in Sacramento, Cal on > 9-25 at the Hyatt Rengency Hotel. > It's under Alt Fuel Vehicles on their website. > If someone goes could they let us know if anything > worthwhile is said? > jerry dycus > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/MDsVHB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
