[Tax-chick]

Didn’t you have trouble with the fuel in the school buses freezing the last couple of winters already? Think they’d learn something ...

[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST jut FReepmail me..... This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

[2harddrive]

The most LIKELY result of a demand for a boutique fuel like 10% biodiesel will be higher prices and FUEL SHORTAGES! Remember Gas Lines? Think DIESEL LINES!

[Gay State Conservative]

I recently bought my third diesel.The first two were specifically said by the manufacturer to take nothing more than B5.Both instruction manuals said that use of anything higher voided the warranty.My current diesel,according to the fuel filling door,can take up to B7.Presumably the use of anything higher voids the warranty.

Do legislators give a rat's hindquarters about this issue?

[bigbob]

The problem with these mandates is that there is no sustainable feedstock for biodiesel. Soybeans are worth FAR more for food uses, and we can export every single bean we don’t need for a premium price (think about who eats tofu and soy sauce). Restaurants used to have to pay to have yellow grease (old fryer oil) hauled away, but now the biodiesel makers have created a sellers market and compete for what is naturally a very limited supply. Oil-rich plants lik eJatropha don’t grow here and even ones that do compete for farm real estate with more profitable crops like corn and soybeans. Algae sounds great on paper but there is NO viable large-scale production process that make sense.

Maybe someday a feedstock will be found that can allow biodiesel to grow, but gov’t mandates that prevent the free market forces from working is the reason over half of the biodiesel plants in existence are sitting idle, rusting away, til they’re sold for pennies on the dollar.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Let the enviroripoffs begin! Show me da money!

[Tea Party Terrorist]

The Government should just mandate the creation of a perpetual motion machine.

[onona]

Feeding the corn growers ping.

[The Great RJ]

I bet farmers got themselves exempted from this mandate as they have from fuel taxes. Farm groups keep pushing for more biofuels so they grow rich from high grain prices. However, try to find any farm machinery that runs on 85% ethanol or biodiesel. I expect to see a lot of trucks stalled on Minnesota highways this winter.

[VTenigma]

Human survival rule #1 DO NOT BURN YOUR FOOD!

[VTenigma]

Human survival rule #1 DO NOT BURN YOUR FOOD!