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Question

"'Most of the oilseeds are used for food here, so that puts biodiesel in an immediate disadvantage, price-wise,' said Adams, the school's director of the Faculty of Engineering Outreach Service. 'But it's an excellent fuel and burns very cleanly. And diesel engines are inherently more efficient than gas engines. It's good for our country and our farmers.'

Those sentiments were expressed a generation ago by Carter, who ran the family peanut farm before being elected Georgia's governor in 1970.

'If our country had followed the policies he laid out then, we'd be far more advanced today in terms of energy independence,' said Johnson. 'President Carter gets to see part of his vision advanced by way of a biodiesel plant in Plains, Ga.'"

BIODIESEL IN THE UNITED STATES:
- 105 biodiesel plants are in operation
- 77 are being built
- 225 million gals. were blended in 2006
- An esitmated 65 million gals. annually will be added by 3 facilities being constructed in Georgia, by 2010

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/stories/2007/02/20/bizbiodiesel0220a.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=6

Answer 1

Yeah, I heard about biodiesel fuels from my AP bio class back in high school. It sounds like a very cool idea because most restaurants will have biodiesel in bulk and some will even pay YOU to take away their stuff. To get a car running on this stuff requires a diesel engine and a relatively cheap converter in your car. Overall, I think it's a pretty good idea but it would really suck to run out of fuel and you would have to go to a restaurant to get more fuel. Biodiesel does give us hope for the future when fossil fuels are going to be scarce, but at the moment, most people would prefer to convenience of gas stations that pump gasoline.

Answer 2

Take a look at the cost of production. Also consider the impact on our food supply. I know farmers in my area will abandon food operations in order to make a little bit more in the production of bio-diesel material.

We need to look further south, cane production and ethanol.