>Jason& Katie wrote: > > BD a dollar more than DD? what a crock. if we can do it in our collective > > garage for less than a dollar a gallon why cant they do it in a huge > > super-specialized facility for even less? man, these corporate types are > > dumber than i thought...and i figured they were they were incompetent to > > begin with. > >They have a lot more fingers in their pies than you do, with government >regulations, paying for collection time and labor and feedstock, >Research and Development costs that must be recouped, government >regulations, safety inspections, administrative overhead... did I >mention the government regulations they have to meet? > >With oil production subsidized like it is, I'm not surprised that it >costs more to produce BD than DD. But I imagine that if you stripped all >the subsidies off of both of them, petrodiesel would come out more >expensive than the bio. > >-Kurt
I'll side with Jason, at least until "corporate types" like ADM et al who're making ethanol from corn wake up to the fact that they could also make biodiesel from the corn oil instead of treating it as a waste product or whatever they do with it these days. Actually I'll still side with Jason even if they are doing that, I'm not going to run out of evidence of big-central corporate dumbnesses any time soon. Best Keith _______________________________________________ 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/
