methane, propane etc. are hydrocarbons.  You need alcohols for a 
transesterification reaction. 
Sorry, they won't work

Teoman Naskali wrote:
> Just a thoght bu would it be possible to use methane or propane or
> buthane instead of methanol? One would have to have some methanol for
> the methroxide but still... that would save a lot of money.
> 
> Has anynone experimented? Any good reason why I shouldn't?
> 
> 

-- 
Bob Allen
http://ozarker.org/bob

"Science is what we have learned about how to keep
from fooling ourselves" - Richard Feynman

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