Hmmmmm......

Biodiesel to drive up the price of cooking oil - CNET News

In the article, I find the following quotation: "Martin Tobias, CEO of Seattle-based biodiesel start-up Imperium Renewables, agreed. Vegetable oil prices have declined in the past three weeks because projected demand for biodiesel has come down from the speculative levels achieved a few weeks ago. Nonetheless, lowered levels of projected demand still seem destined to make supply difficult.

"I do think there will be a crimp in vegetable oil supplies in three to five years," said Tobias, who once worked at Microsoft.

Part of the problem is the amount of oil required. It takes 7.5 pounds of oil to make one gallon of biodiesel.

And I was running it at 100% which would yield far more useable fuel per gallon, however I expect many of the Duracrax and PowerSmoke diesels wouldn't run on 100% VVO...

Tobias made this statement in closing the article: "Next year, European car manufacturers will bring to the U.S. more clean diesel cars, which produce fewer fumes than conventional diesel-engine cars. Clean diesels can also run on biodiesel, producing even fewer fumes.
"A clean diesel gets better mileage than a hybrid," he said.

Now Hybrid mileage, to me, has always been suspect, because it relies on the on-off hybrid system. Our city bought a few Prius's in 2009 and when the hybrid system went out on one of them, it was a 22mpg car.

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