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Old 06-18-2007, 11:22 AM
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It's good for them. The oil companies have pretty much had a monopoly on the fuel market since the get go. Henry Ford's first car was built to run on ethanol, and Rudolph Diesel's first diesel was built to run on peanut oil. But petro fuels became so much cheaper then that the switch was made to gasoline and diesel. The oil companies have had the corner on the market for nearly 100 years. Now they are starting to get some competition from some cleaner burning fuels and they start whining. Maybe they should have started thinking about the days when oil would become too expensive and/or hard to find, and start looking into alternative fuel options. Gasoline here a few weeks ago was more than $3.30/gallon. While biodiesel was just under $3.30/gallon. Makes the ol' biodiesel look a lot more appitizing to people. People are cheapskates, they tend to buy what is cheapest when it comes to fuel. If biodiesel and ethanol become cheaper then people are going to start wanting to use that instead of gas and diesel. Apparently there are enough people that believe the global warming story that they want to start using cleaner burning fuels, maybe the big oil companies need to shift gears, before they become obsolete
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