Date:         Wed, 18 May 2005 12:10:54 -0600
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: oil and gas
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On 5/18/05 11:45 AM, "Higginbotham, David A."
<dhigginbotham@HAZENANDSAWYER.COM> wrote:

> Just curious: If vanagons can be converted to run on bio-fuels why can't
> tractors and processing equipment?
>
> David Higginbotham
> 82 Westfalia
> Silk Hope, NC

You are confusing commercial bio-fuel and home-brew bio-fuel.  The two are
totally different.  Standard commercial bio-fuel does not require
modification of the vehicle.  The problem is that the commercial bio-fuel
blend (B10 or B20 diesel) currently is still to expensive for the farmer to
use or the commercial trucker. However I have seen where some coops in
minnesota and canada are putting out limited production that is heavily
subsidized and blending it into their diesel stocks with no increase in
price.  These production plants are highly experimental and aimed
specifically at the local bio-mass.  There is heavy speculation that this is
the way that it may have to be done in the future.  A company in england is
betting heavily on that and creating refineries that are about the size of
the trailer on an 18 wheeler.


jimt