James: side issue...how do people feel about the fact that much biodiesel will be coming from animal fats, especially in warm climates?
Will commercial biodiesel need to be sold as veg and non-veg origin, aside from this WVO/SVO source issue, (which is silly, there is no CO sequestering advantage to new oil versus oil that spent a week in a fryer). Ed On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 10:43 AM, James Slayden wrote: > Hola, > > In talking with someone recently who is interested in purchasing some > biodiesel, and interesting comment came up in our email exchange. He > indicated that he was more interested in biodiesel made from crude VO > than > that made of WVO. I was trying to convince him that the WVO option was > better due to the recyclable nature of the WVO, but he insisted that > the > CO sequestering was better of the more recent growing cycle. I had a > difficult time convincing him that it was the same .... but oh well. > He > didn't even care about the GMO feedstock issue!! > > I guess what this leaves me with is a customer perception problem of > crude > VO vs. WVO based biodiesel. I am wondering why that perception issue > exists and how to overcome it in talking w/ people who are not > biodiesel > geeks. I know that most of the folks at the Berkley BD Co-op are > religiously pro-WVO BD and will absolutely not put GMO-VO biodiesel in > their vehicles. So there is the dichotomy in interest of the different > feedstocks for biodiesel. > > Any thoughts? > > James Slayden > > > > Biofuels at Journey to Forever > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Biofuel at WebConX > http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm > List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
