Good news in WA for the bean burners

and in fact many others as well...
http://www.komotv.com/stories/43341.htm

Sounds good at first but......

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002983801_biodiesel10m.html
Biodiesel firm plans $40 million refinery

But it would probably be of little immediate benefit to Washington farmers, because the new refinery would be fed largely by palm oil from Malaysia and soybean oil from elsewhere in the U.S.

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What's the old saying, buy low-sell-high.
Same goes for the base oils needed for biodiesel.
I brought this up before.
No way will local farmers compete with imported
cheap palm oil.

Good point Autodiesel. I guess there is always two sides to a story. This explains why they are building it near the coast as to near the seed source.

Seattle BD is concerned about profits. Pure and simple.

I will not support those using this BD because of that like Laurelhurst.

Too bad that the "refinery" in Whatcom county will not be able to compete with this behemoth of a plant, since the Whatcom county plant will be using locally grown oils.

Besides with all the questions being raised about Soy based versus Rapeseed oil, does anyone know how palm oil rates?

Whole Energy should do fine.

http://www.whole-energy.com/

Our primary feedstock is recycled vegetable oil which we deemed to be the most sustainable and environmentally beneficial resource to turn into fuel.

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That is why I'm using theirs (B20 from the Snohomish Co-Op) over
using any virgin stock biodiesel. The used oil market should be tapped
out first before going to virgin oils.

TomB said:

Besides with all the questions being raised about Soy based versus Rapeseed oil, does anyone know how palm oil rates?

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I'll leave any technical aspects to others but here is a good
link about oil yields and characteristics......

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html