Cattle-based fuel runs Oklahoma-Texas passenger train

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 20, 2010 | KELLY P. KISSEL

[Willie Green]

ABOARD THE HEARTLAND FLYER — Amtrak and transportation officials from Oklahoma and Texas have started a yearlong test to see whether beef-based biodiesel can efficiently run The Heartland Flyer passenger train between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth.

Texas cattle are supplying 20 percent of the fuel for the 3,200-horsepower engine, the rest is regular No. 2 diesel.

[Willie Green]

Oh good grief... what's the matter with these 'tards???

Don't they read my posts???

If I've said it once, I must've said it a THOUSAND times:

"We need ELECTRICALLY powered passenger rail.
And more nuclear power plants so we don't have to kowtow to the OPECkers."

Yeah, yeah, yeah.... I know that I must sound like a broken record sometimes...
But one of these days, you're ALL gonna be thankful that I kept up the fight!

[stars & stripes forever]

Oh good grief... what's the matter with these 'tards??? Don't they read my posts??? If I've said it once, I must've said it a THOUSAND times:

Forget electricity, hooking cows up with tubes to capture the methane gas they emit would solve the energy crisis and global warming. :)

[mountainlion]

Electric passenger might work in a limited areas but it has already been tried and discarded nationwide. Electric freight is impossible because of long distances and need for a whole new electrical grid like passenger electric would require. Who would pay for this Utopian dream. I already owe over $150,000 that I did not get to vote on. Taxation without representation is tyranny.

[Bean Counter]

[colorado tanker]

Just another source of natural gas . . . .

[Red Badger]

Gotta keep on Moooooovin’..................

[mountainlion]

Just another source of natural gas . . . .

The only real source of natural gas and no green willie, I do not read your posts.

[colorado tanker]

???

[mountainlion]

???

I tried to get your picture but it did not come through.

Cows are the origonal source of natural gas.

[mountainlion]

???

I tried to get your picture but it did not come through.

Cows are the origonal source of natural gas.

[colorado tanker]

Let ‘er rip!

[mountainlion]

That depends on what they were eating and which end of them you are on.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Who would pay for this Utopian dream

Well, the first letter of Utopia is “You”. There is a clue somewhere in there.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Just another source of natural gas . . . .

Hey, that gives me an idea. I’m gonna apply for a gubmint grant to manufacture livestock buttplugs.

I’ll be RICH!

(Of course, I’ll hire people to do the field testing...)

[MarkLevinFan]

This is where they are headed...

[Nervous Tick]

>> We need ELECTRICALLY powered passenger rail.

Passenger rail IS electrically powered... diesel electric.

Coal trains went out ages ago.

[thackney]

I didn’t see in the article just how it is “cow supplied” fuel. Are they rendering unused cow parts for biodiesel?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Next thing they’ll do is subsitute humans for cattle.

[Bailee]

There burning beef for Gas. First corn now Beef surely I have missed something.

I mean what the he11 we supposed to eat.

[OB1kNOb]

or perhaps.........