Todd, I hope you are right. I think the key phrase is "conformity issues".
If you have found an inexpesive option to meet the issues you have raised...and I think there are others...please share them. I don't clainm to know all the answers...just some...and if you care to share yours it might help many others from finding themselves in YBD's current position. I would much rather be wrong and learn of alternatives that i am currently unaware of than proven right on this issue...no doubt about it. I have lived through a very similar experience and do not envy YBD as it was a very costly education for me. In the end the tuition was worth it but I hope my posts can help others learn without paying "full tuition" for the knowledge. I beleive that the $1,000,000 figure was originally attributed to the EPA in an early post that had an excerpt from the YBD web site or email attributed to YBD. This stated(if memory serves) that the EPA representative had estimated that it would cost $1,000,000 to duplicate the pollution data of the NBB for BD which met thier specs. I too believe that there remain alternatives to failure for YBD at this point but am unaware of the pursuit of these alternatives by them. This does not mean that they are unpursued, only that I see no evidence of it. Dana --- Appal Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YBD is not doomed to failure. Nor will they fail. > > There are some conformity issues that need to be > met, if the end goal is to sell outside of a close > circle, if only to prevent liability actions. > > Throw in a few health, environmental and fire > guidelines that should be adhered to - which only > makes some pretty good sense even at the kitchen > blender scale - and then go about business. > > Well....and the inevitable state and federal road > tax "hoop dance" that has to be conducted for > on-road fuel sales... > > Would someone please enlighten me as to what the EPA > attributed the $1,000,000 value to? Or did the ink > simply transfer from one side of the folded paper to > the other, creating too many zeros? > > I just got this thread in an old smelling salts > bottled that washed up on shore. > > Todd Swearingen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:26 PM > Subject: Re: [biofuel] EPA hassle > > > Dana, thanks for your response. I don't have much > to add at this time except > to say that even though you might believe YBD is > foredoomed to fail, it > behooves us to support them, so long as it can be > done without confrontation, > if for no more than the learning experience. I, > for one, am curious what > would happen, if after you let the sun shine in > with everything out in the > open, what would be the responses of both DBD and > EPA. It would help to be > more familiar with the agendas of both these > organizations, with whom we will > have to continue to deal with in the future. > Glenn > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > 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 the Yahoo! > Terms of Service. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/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/
