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President Bush Considers Biodiesel Most Promising Fuel to Meet Renewable Fuel Standard Requirements
www.biofuelsjournal.com ^ | 03-12-2008 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; diesel; energy; fuel; oil; pollution
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To: taildragger

O1 O2?

I agree


81 posted on 03/13/2008 4:32:19 PM PDT by colonialhk (Harry and Nancy are our best moron allies)
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To: colonialhk
Thanks Colonial...

I do not get the 01, 02 reference ?

82 posted on 03/13/2008 4:46:32 PM PDT by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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To: Red Badger
More proof W has lost his marbles.
83 posted on 03/13/2008 4:50:24 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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To: ScratInTheHat

Please, reserves are at an all time high and more being found everyday.


84 posted on 03/13/2008 4:52:32 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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I’m still waiting for antimatter.


85 posted on 03/13/2008 5:10:23 PM PDT by Tony in Hawaii (Lookin' for the joke with a microscope)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Have you not noticed that the estimates on those same reserves, the same finds not new ones, have been doubled and tripled since the early eighties?

Show me your numbers!


86 posted on 03/13/2008 5:25:58 PM PDT by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: ScratInTheHat
That is because extraction technology has improved significantly since the. I reopened two wells that were declared dead in 1980. They pump more now than when they were brand new. They can drill wells three times deeper now than the early 80's. New finds in the Gulf of Mexico alone are bigger than many countries have in reserve. Venezula has new finds that Hugo will not fork up the money to drill for. BTW as the price rises consumption will drop at some point it will drop significantly. Growth is currently below the estimated 2%. Owners of oil reserves are NOT going to inflate the numbers since in many cases they have to pay taxes on the reserve even if it is not yet tapped. Below is a VERY fair look at the situation. Some people do not agree with the 6BB number they think it is larger.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/feature_articles/2004/worldoilsupply/oilsupply04.html

87 posted on 03/13/2008 5:41:14 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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To: 21twelve

Year Abu Dhabi Dubai Iran Iraq Kuwait Saudi Arabia Venezuela
1980 28.00 1.40 58.00 31.00 65.40 163.35 17.87
1981 29.00 1.40 57.50 30.00 65.90 165.00 17.95
1982 30.60 1.27 57.00 29.70 64.48 164.60 20.30
1983 30.51 1.44 55.31 41.00 64.23 162.40 21.50
1984 30.40 1.44 51.00 43.00 63.90 166.00 24.85
1985 30.50 1.44 48.50 44.50 90.00 169.00 25.85
1986 31.00 1.40 47.88 44.11 89.77 168.80 25.59
1987 31.00 1.35 48.80 47.10 91.92 166.57 25.00
1988 92.21 4.00 92.85 100.00 91.92 166.98 56.30
1989 92.20 4.00 92.85 100.00 91.92 169.97 58.08
1990 92.20 4.00 93.00 100.00 95.00 258.00 59.00
1991 92.20 4.00 93.00 100.00 94.00 258.00 59.00
1992 92.20 4.00 93.00 100.00 94.00 258.00 62.70
2004 92.20 4.00 132.00 115.00 99.00 259.00 78.00

Can’t you see the BS here? They are being pumped out 24/7 but still increasing all the time.

What happened to the US wells they said would never run out?

Most known large fields are in decline. They don’t pump more than they used to even as they tell us there is plenty there. Why would that be with oil at all time high prices?

These people are milking this for as long as they can because if we did know what is going to happen there would be more going into addressing energy needs in the future now. If that happened to soon they wouldn’t get the crazy prices for the last oil they get out of the ground. Anything happening on a large scale like what is going on in Brazil and they lose out.

They don’t want any real competition for oil until it’s too late.

That’s just how I see it. If you believe their numbers I hope your’e right. I’ll follow the guys that has predicted very well all the delines that have already come to pass.

The Hubbert curve (M. King Hubbert) has correctly predicted declines so I’m placing more faith in it than the numbers coming out of these countries.


88 posted on 03/13/2008 5:48:18 PM PDT by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: mad_as_he$$
That is because extraction technology has improved significantly since the. I reopened two wells that were declared dead in 1980

OK if this is the case why is US production still declining?

I have no doubt that what you say is true. But! It's not going to take up the slack that is caused by a constant increase in demand. The only way that demand is going to fall enough is for prices to stay high enough to impact the economy negatively. It would have to take large scale conversion measures that still allowed the economy to expand.

I’m sorry but I don’t see that in the works here. The world economy is acting like a fungus it will feed until the food dries up then die off. It may do that over and over until we cross peak oil. But we don’t have anything that can deliver the energy that oil can. I don’t see people coming to understand what a world without cheap oil is going to be like.

Even if the west does start doing any of this stuff it’s just going to allow China India and Russia to use the oil that we save here. They are not going to do anything that is going to cost them anything near what it’s going to cost to get off oil.

89 posted on 03/13/2008 6:08:44 PM PDT by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: ScratInTheHat
Sorry but I can't agree with that. In order to keep or increase our current standard of living any of these alternates will have to be exploited at a 10 to 1 minimum to replace oil. Oil is just that good of an energy source and it's going to start declining in the near future. Everything points to that.

Hmmmm. The energy density of Uranium is only about 1200 times that of oil. Not that oil isn't a potent energy source mind you, and that vast money hasn't been spent to make it the Dominant One, but there's a whole lot more of a whole lot of other stuff, even just within the Geoconstitutional boundary of the US.

90 posted on 03/13/2008 6:32:39 PM PDT by jnsun (The LEFT: The need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
you are whacked!

when was the last time you saw some starving poor begging for soybean oil or even tofu made from soybeans?? when was the last time you heaped soybean oil on your salad??

Biodiesel is made from pressing the oil from soybeans. It doesn't prevent the rest of the bean from being eaten.

Lurking’

91 posted on 03/13/2008 6:58:43 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: texson66

Sir,

you are absolutely, flat out wrong about biodiesel.

lurking’


92 posted on 03/13/2008 7:00:18 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: Red Badger
Forget soybeans, forget vegetable oils, think ALGAE!!..........And GARBAGE & TRASH.........and SEWAGE.........AND WASTE OILS..........AND COAL!!!..........ALL of these can be made into DIESEL FUELS...........

Yes, they can be made into diesel fuel in eight or ten years - biodiesel is NOW. How much do you think fuel is going to cost without biodiesel augmenting conventional production until you coal diesel comes on line?

Lurking’

93 posted on 03/13/2008 7:07:12 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: RayBob
Sorry RayBob

but switchgrass is used for making cellulosic ethanol NOT biodiesel - there is a big difference.

also sorry about it being a viable alternative. It is right now - today you can buy 100% biodiesel and run it straight in most diesels in summertime. Maybe they don't have it where you live but they sure have it in the midwest. It has higher lubricity than the new low sulfur diesel. And if your worried about pout point add a gallon of gasoline to every 20 gallons of diesel, works fairly well down to 0 F.

I think you really need to read up on it first.

Lurking’

94 posted on 03/13/2008 7:21:22 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: RayBob
Sorry RayBob

but switchgrass is used for making cellulosic ethanol NOT biodiesel - there is a big difference.

also sorry about it being a viable alternative. It is right now - today you can buy 100% biodiesel and run it straight in most diesels in summertime. Maybe they don't have it where you live but they sure have it in the midwest. It has higher lubricity than the new low sulfur diesel. And if your worried about pout point add a gallon of gasoline to every 20 gallons of diesel, works fairly well down to 0 F.

I think you really need to read up on it first.

Lurking’

95 posted on 03/13/2008 7:21:26 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

they are not being subsidized.


96 posted on 03/13/2008 7:26:27 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: ScratInTheHat

it is not either or they will subsidize both.


97 posted on 03/13/2008 7:27:54 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It is a really, really, really bad, arrogant and contemptuous thing for a society to burn food when there are parts of the world where people are starving.

Ignorance has its price. Let 'em starve.

98 posted on 03/13/2008 7:28:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: jnsun

We were talking about organics.

Nuclear and thermal are great resources.

Iceland is going to be powered completely by thermal and hydro in the near future.


99 posted on 03/13/2008 7:44:31 PM PDT by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: LurkingSince'98

Corn to Ethanol is just silly.

If the best numbers are 1.25 out its just stupid to even try it.

From what I’ve seen it’s more like a 1 to 1 or less for the full process.

This is a farm subsidy not an energy subsidy.


100 posted on 03/13/2008 7:57:16 PM PDT by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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