Rodney, I applaud anyone's effort to stop or limit pollution or use alternative fuels. However you are quite naive, and if your beliefs are as you say they are then I would expect you to be riding a bicycle or scooter everywhere or taking public transportation. They ride scooters in Germany even in the winter when it is snowing. Don't tell me it can't be done. Reserve your automobile for when there is significant snowfall. What you saw or experienced in Asia is happening all over this world, and I know big oil can be worse. Coming from private military personnel in charge of guarding oil wells and pipelines in Africa, I have heard it first hand. I understand there are people in this world that just do not believe, or do not want to believe that the products they use, consume or purchase have a trail of hardship, blood and tears behind it. Go to any store and find me a nice HDTV made entirely in the USA. Think you can do it? Hybrid owners are shocked when they are told of where lithium comes from, and the issues in that region. A starving baby in Asia from deforestation is the same as a murdered baby in Africa making way for a new pipeline. People that often say they do so much for the environment are not willing to sacrifice their own comfort and convenience for said environment, and that is hypocrisy. Maybe this idea that helping the world obtain manufacturing jobs, outsourcing and the likes have led to the reason China has nearly 2 trillion U.S. dollars in foreign exchange reserve.
Bio-diesel is great, but there needs to be significant investments made in finding a means of production from something other than a food supply, or without mowing down the Everglades.....