[Sinner6]

"I do want to see an alternative that competes with oil become widely available, however."

So do I. Do you know much about biodiesel? That is one that really sounds intresting to me, converting garbage into useful product.

[mysterio]

I played a concert once to raise money for biodiesel research, but the hippies ran the concert off of biodiesel generators and the generators gummed up and shut down. I don't think it was the biodiesel that was the problem, though.

I used to think ethanol and biodiesel were poor replacements for gas. But if they can be produced domestically, that gets us out of a lot of problems worldwide, and if they are renewable, everybody wins. Ethanol from crops, and biodiesel from trash. Sounds like a good idea, at least in theory.