Tuneman07 said:
There is another thing needed for success- its called get everyone out of the pockets of the oil companies. I think that's the only thing holding bioD back. Oil companies stand to lose an insane amount of money if something as simple and easily made on a small scale as BioD becomes mainstream. No one can make diesel, you need crude and a refinery its simply not possible on a small scale. Should high blends of BioD become the norm people can make their own on an individual basis, small companies can make small amounts and charge real prices not prices based on OPEC and other HUGE organizations consisting of multiple nations. Its simply not possible to screw with people concerning BioD. You can't say there is a war going on so prices have to go up, you can't say refineries wherever shut down so prices go up, these companies just stand to lose way too much money to let bioD catch on easily. Big oil has lots of money to throw at car makers, politicians, and whoever else has the power to create cars that run on bioD without problems, and mandate certain blends and anything that helps improve bioD popularity. Why are we making natural gas cars, hydrogen cars, hybrids, and all that other BS? All we need to do is replace D with bioD and instantly we can use zero petrolium and pollute far less. Nothing else needed. If bioD drops in price too then that will even help increase popularity of diesels in cars but even just switching trucks to BioD would save tons of oil. Oil companies will fight tooth and nail against it though.
Well both you and I have our hands in the big oil pockets as our 401k plan(s) is buying some of these stocks that are performing well. After all no one likes to see their nest egg melting away.
I know people are for some reason concerned about relatively high gas prices, but how come no one was concerned about the over-priced housing market that is now finally cooling down?
How come no-one was complaining about the over inflated Internet stocks in the late 90's?
Now, I am sick and tired of the wall street speculators that always have a good enough excuse to jack up the oil price. Even if the price of crude goes down, the price at the pump goes up, as there is always a refinery in trouble. The latest one was a St. Croix refinery, that has slowed down its production due to a scheduled maintenance job. An yes, they have scheduled this job in the summer time when everyone needs more gas - therefore the price hike.
In W. Michigan price per gallon is almost as high as it was last July when crude was selling at $75+. Now that the crude is well bellow that mark they still charge close to $3/gallon as there is not enough refined oil. Just a bunch of BS.
Finally, even if majority of cars became Bio/Diesel capable, price per gallon would go up. Why? Well each state is funding their useless programs thru the fuel tax dollars. Fuel tax is per gallon, if less gallons are sold, they will raise the tax to cover the difference. Every state like big cars as it creates more revenue.
My point is:
I'm all for a renewable, USA made fuel, of any kind - any kind of non-Arab fuel source is my kind of fuel. This fuel however, will not be any cheaper, as the cheapest fuel is the one we are getting right now. At the same time, the non-Arab fuel should cleanup the environment and hopefully save some military related tax dollars.