The First Thing You'd Do if You Were President

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

There are still the logistical issues of finding practical ways to use it. Anything previously used would obviously have to be finely filtered, and there would still be the same distribution problems of how to get it to places to filter it and get it into vehicles.

Brief outline of what solutions people have with filtering used vegetable oil....... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5136966/

I am sure some enterprising entrepenuer would jump at the chance to secure contracts with the hundreds of restauranteurs to make a few bucks for doing nothing more then a little filtering and redistribution. This type of thing has the same feel as linux to me, there were many people that I knew several years ago that said linux would never last, but it is still a thriving OS, in fact Red Hat was a very good stock at one point(I haven't watched their stock in several years, so don't know what they are doing now). So, I don't know what the reluctance is to ween ourselves off the fossil fuel tit is, but I would be more then willing to convert a car to run off diesel(I think the next four wheeled vehicle I buy will be diesel so I can use a different fuel). But back to the point, as more and more people take steps to use vegetable oil as an alternative fuel, the distribution needs would arise. It seems a far better solution to me then drilling for a pittance of oil in a pristine wildlife refuge, and who knows, maybe the market for agricultural products would improve decreasing the need for agricultural subsidies. Seems more a win-win to me then lining the already bulging pockets of the oil millionaires. I am a realist and understand that there will always be a demand for fossil fuels, but introducing a viable alternative that could help to decrease our dependance on fossil fuels as the only form of energy seems very promising.