Posted on 03/22/2015 7:12:27 AM PDT by thackney
Who needs this crap when oil is as cheap as it is now?
The EPA thinks we do.
Well you learn something every day. I would have bet my Soc Sec deposit that statement was false on a T/F test.
“Who needs this crap when oil is as cheap as it is now?”
If government has the power to do something, anything, it will create an infrastructure of government workers and do that thing. This enables them to receive lobby dollars and distribute money as they please. It’s about power. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “politics is all about who gets how much and when.”
The only way to stop this is to get rid of the agencies involved. But, as Reagan pointed out, there is nothing so close to immortality as a government program.
I do not understand the need to import this stuff at all. Don’t we have plenty of sources of materials with which to make our own biodiesel?
How much of the diesel market does biodiesel support, anyway?
Ping to you.
World’s Largest Biodiesel Plant Opens in Singapore
http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/archive/worlds-largest-biodiesel-plant-opens-in-singapore/
Mar 09, 2011
Besides palm oil, the plant also uses by-products of palm oil production from Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as waste animal fat from Australia and New Zealand, to produce its renewable diesel, which Neste Oil claims is the cleanest diesel fuel on the market today.
It is being sold in Europe and North America, where governments have adopted biofuel mandates, under which sellers of transportation fuel have to ensure that part of the fuel they sell is biodiesel.
It’s mandated in California as part of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
I don’t know how the actual percentages/amounts come out, but this is done to satisfy state law.
Same reason Tesla is able to make money selling “credits” to companies that don’t have electric cars to peddle in Cali.
The way to encourage new technology and innovation is to get government the hell out of the way, not by imposing stupid mandates on consumption. You don’t see government mandate forcing people to buy smartphones do you?
Thanks!
So Singapore is the “Tesla” of biodiesel!
Cost. It comes down to palm oil transported from across the pacific is competitive with local production from other sources.
The 2014 biomass-based diesel obligation would remain unchanged from its 2013 value at 1.28 billion gallons.
Our Distillate demand, which includes heating fuel oil as well as diesel, is about 4 million barrels a day or over 60 billion gallons a year.
4-Week Avg U.S. Product Supplied of Distillate Fuel Oil
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WDIUPUS2&f=4
It is mandated by the feds for all of the US as well.
Oh Hallelujah!
Singapore Uber Alles!
(thanks for the great info, as always)
330 million GALLONS? That is spit in the ocean.
The world’s biggest biodiesel producers
http://www.statista.com/statistics/271472/biodiesel-production-in-selected-countries/
Well, somewhat understandable because retail price at the pump has diesel much higher than gasoline. And bio/renewed diesel is sold for the dame price per gallon as the newly made refined stuff. The only way to really save with biodiesel is to make it yourself, and that involves a lot of work. And time/work=money...
More people would drive diesel cars if the price at the pump went down, and the price at the pump would go down if production could match the increase in diesel engines... I just don’t see that happening anytime soon.
Well you learn something every day. I would have bet my Soc Sec deposit that statement was false on a T/F test.
I think that it is the Palm Oil where forests are being cleared all over South East Asia to grow palm oil
Singapore is the regional financial center so export company offices are located there,
Here's what a palm oil plantation looks like ..(another dio-diversity disaster promoted by the greenies)
In its annual Human Development Report released yesterday, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) highlighted the untenable environmental impacts of palm oil production. As a supposedly environmentally-friendly biofuel and healthier food ingredient, the demand for palm oil has risen steadily in recent years and can be found anywhere from cookies to cosmetics — yet, as we've shown on TH before (again and again), it is becoming clear that palm oil comes with a pretty heavy ecological cost.
"Expansion of cultivation of (oil palm) in East Asia has been associated with widespread deforestation and violation of human rights of indigenous people," states the report, which singles out top producers Indonesia and Malaysia as countries where - in addition to deforestation and indigenous conflicts - palm oil production has also resulted in the destruction of key habitats of endangered primates.
Interesting, thanks!
Not satisfied with whacking birds out of the sky with windmill blades in the US, environmentalists now mandate clear cutting forests in Asia.
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