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Posted on 04/17/2007 12:42:42 AM PDT by neverdem
HOUSTON, April 16 — Tyson Foods and ConocoPhillips have cooked up a new recipe for your pickup truck.
The two companies announced Monday that they were forming an alliance to produce and market diesel fuel made from pork, poultry and beef fat. It was another sign that farmers and agribusinesses, which are now producing corn for ethanol, will be playing an increasingly large part in the country’s energy future. The new brew should be available at the neighborhood filling station by the end of the year.
The companies said that the diesel, which will be shipped and distributed through existing pipelines from ConocoPhillips refineries, would burn cleaner than conventional diesel. Much of the feedstock for the fuel will come from several Tyson rendering plants.
“This strategic alliance is a big win for the entire agricultural sector because it paves the way for great participation of fats and oils in renewable fuels,” said Richard L. Bond, Tyson’s president and chief executive.
ConocoPhillips, the third-largest American oil company, began producing some diesel from soybean oil last year at a plant in Cork, Ireland. The processing technology for the fat-based diesel was developed and successfully tested at the Irish plant.
The oil company’s alliance with Tyson indicates an even greater interest in pursuing biofuels; several other companies including Chevron and BP have expressed similar interests recently.
Efforts to reprocess animal fat will begin at some Tyson plants by the end of the year, and production is expected to reach 175 million gallons a year by 2009. That represents about 3 percent of the diesel produced by ConocoPhillips in the United States.
A total of 250 million gallons of biodiesel was produced in the United States last year, a minuscule percentage of the total American diesel market. But biodiesel production is expected to grow...
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Los Angeles might be able to be fueled by the fat which is sucked out of actresses and socialites in Beverly Hills each day. Just a thought.... Rosie could potentially provide energy for the entirety of Beverly Hills in one lipo session!
The Western response to Muslim oil: Pig Diesel !
I wonder how the Muslims are going to react to Pork-oil powered cars? Knowing that the exhaust, from burning pork, is being expelled into the air that they are breathing? I’m starting to like this whole pork-o-deisel idea.
bet this drops the price of pork rinds too......wooohoooooooo
NExBTL is a renewable diesel production process commercialized by Neste Oil. Chemically, it entails direct hydrogenation of plant oil, which is triglyceride, into the corresponding alkane. This removes oxygen from the oil. Unlike the yellow transesterified biodiesel, the product is a clear and colorless paraffin, with a good cetane number (85 to 99) and better properties than even petrodiesel. It requires no modification or special precautions for the engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NExBTL
Probably better than FAME (such as RME = Methylated Rapeseed oil)
Add in Michael Moore and you’ve got West Hollywood covered too!
my first thought was “when do the diesel powered Predator and Tomahawk variants come online?”
For a moment, I thought it was Nestlé
Neste:
Nestlé:
“The Western response to Muslim oil: Pig Diesel !”
Get Some!
IT’S PEOPLE!!!!! BIO DIESEL IS PEOPLE!!!!!
ONE of 'em aught to sell.
Capitalismmmmmmm ... Ho!
I can't?
Why not?
Oh, OK ya big sissy.
Stock up on meat then. Prices will be going on even more.
Won't that give my car hardening of the arteries?
Soylent Green Is People! At least the Premium High Octane blend is lol. A good way to thin out the nursing homes, homeless shelters, and abortion waste-—sarc of course.
All food will be going up!
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
Rosie....oh, Rosie.....sooooooweeeeeeee!!!!!..........
What IS that?........
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