The price I hear quoted here in Arkansas is 17 cents a pound for virgin oil.
greg Kelly wrote: > There is an auction going on eBay for virgin soy oil > that has me wondering. The man selling it says the > lot is 4 barrells of oil totalling 232 gallons, 1700 > net pounds. It is currently selling at auction for > around 25 cents per pound, or about $1.83 USD per > gallon. People are jumping all over this guy, > proclaiming what a great price it is, yada, yada, > yada. > It sure seems to me that at $1.83 per gallon, plus the > delivery,methanol, KOH, time involved, the reactor > cost and energy to do the process, cost of biodiesel > from this stuff will be easily approaching $2.50 USD > per gallon. Is there something wrong here, am I > missing something that will make this all worth it? It > sure isn't going to be the savings on KOH. > Can the expense and time of collecting WVO be worth > $1.00 or more per gallon of my time? > The more I think about this, the more I think I should > simply sit back, watch the fun and be amused at the > spectacle. Greg Kelly > Just search "biodiesel", it has a bout a day and a > half to run. You won't be able to miss it. > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > -- Bob Allen http://ozarker.org/bob "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" — Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
