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I don't know why it isn't talked about a lot more.

Same here. Most diesel engines can run a biodiesel blend with little to no modification. Certain kinds of engines can run straight biodiesel with minor conversion for a hugh savings.

Bush FINALLY mentioned the current state of ethanol production recently. It is about time. I'm not a big fan of ethanol, but I really like biodiesel, and I really hate buying fuel from various and asundry third world tyrants.

I feel the same.
We have a moral imperative to do what we can to stop funding the many evil governments that sell oil.
It's crazy we aren't doing more with biodiesel.
Right now we are throwing away huge amounts of it, even just cooking oil.

The highways would smell of french fries though.

I'm convinced diesel engines are about to become much more popular. Until now, only inferior tech diesel engines were available in the USA, because the most efficient ones can't tolerate the high sulphur diesel we have. Europe has way better diesel engines, with more power and better fuel economy and reliability, thanks to their low sulphur fuel.

Now that the USA is switching to low sulphur diesel, we'll get the better engines...

Well, I'll be. Our state senator, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, just did a short piece on the news here about alternative energy and alternative fuels and their impact on Texas.