Posted on 03/13/2008 12:19:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
Washington, DC—President Bush on March 5 at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) called biodiesel the most promising renewable fuel for helping to meet renewable fuels standards.
The WIREC conference wraps up its four-day sessions that began March 3.
Here are a few of the ways biodiesel was highlighted.
"The legislation requires fuel producers to supply at least 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel in the year 2022," said President Bush.
"In other words, these just aren't goals, these are mandatory requirements.
"I'm confident the United States can meet those goals, and I know we must, for the sake of economic security, national security, and for the sake of being good stewards of the environment.
"Biodiesel is the most promising of these fuels.
"Biodiesel refineries can produce fuel from soybeans, and vegetable oils, and recycled cooking grease, from waste materials.
"All you out there with waste, you may be in business before you know it as this new technology kicks in.
"Most Americans -- or, more Americans -- are beginning to realize the benefits of biodiesel every year.
"Last year, we produced 450 million gallons of biodiesel.
"That's up 80 percent from 2006.
"Today there are more than 650 biodiesel fueling stations in America.
"There are hundreds of fleet operators that use biodiesel to fuel their trucks, and that's just the beginning of what is going to be a substantial change in our driving habits," said President Bush.
Equipment at the conference showed biodiesel in application.
Volvo Group, together with Mack® Trucks, featured trucks running on renewable fuels, including biodiesel, on the trade show exposition floor.
The truck running on biodiesel was manufactured in Dublin, VA.
President Bush also visited this exhibit, commenting on the "amazing joint venture with Mack and Volvo on these giant trucks that are using biodiesel to power them."
Manning Feraci, National Biodiesel Board VP of Federal Affairs, addressed conference attendees in a session yesterday.
The NBB also held a booth at WIREC. For more information, call Amber Thurlo Pearson at 800-841-5849.
That number applies to the worst processes out there.
Do you think that none of the ethanol plants recycle any of their water? If you do your mistaken.
Do you think that none of the ethanol plants use advanced distillation techniques? If you do your mistaken.
Do you think that none of the ethanol plants use heat recovery? If you do your mistaken.
Yet the 1.25 number assumes all of the above; no water recycling, no advanced distillation, no heat recovery.
Those numbers are from a group with an agenda - obviously you have joined that group.
Lurking’
That's the honesty I'm lookin' for!
Problem is, one of these days it's gonna be you starving, you're just too stupid to see it coming.
Stupidity has its price.
How’s that going to happen?
A year ago I was arguing that we would see plenty of corn, and we have. In fact last years corn was too large for us to use.
We now have what may very well be the largest corn surplus in the last 200 years.
And, the American farmer hasn’t really be unleashed yet. Crop sizes will double in the next 20 years, maybe even in the next 10 or 15. Surpluses will continue to be the farmers nemesis.
Sounds like it's long past time to end the subsidies, then.
The subsidies have been part of a Cheap Food for Consumers Program.
The program is beginning to fall apart because the government doesn’t have enough money to buy the farmers cooperation anymore.
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