I have burned chicken fat diesel in both of my diesel cars. It is great. The engine loves this alternative. Problem running 100% chicken fat bio under 40 degrees. Great if it is mixed.

This is a great feed stock for bio diesel. Soy beans is not a viable choice for long term.

We should be using ever available source for producing bio diesel.

For every gallon of bio diesel we use it is a gallon of fuel we are not having to import.

Cars in Europe are well over 50% diesel. Any car you see here in the US there is a diesel version in Europe.

Ford has a diesel in Europe that get 65 MPG. Why is it not for sale in the US

China has leased over 1 million acres of land around the world for growing algae for diesel fuel.

I get upto 50 MPG in my Jetta Diesel wagon.

GO Bio Diesel

Energy independence should be our top priority.

LandPilot - you're a lone voice of reason in the sea of corrupted tax-money-grabbing politicians and corporations exploiting uneducated masses green enthusiasm :)

For example, green aliens around here even would like to believe that "electrical" car you plug into garage wall outlet is such a swell and clean idea, forgetting that 50% of US electricity is generated by burning the dirtiest fuel - coal. And nobody counts enviromental damage from production and disposal of huge hi-capacity batteries. Apparently nobody learned in school that multiple stages of energy conversion with very low efficiency are horrendously ineffcient ways to use energy. 30% after 30% is just 9%, etc.

Renewable bio is just a hoax for naive and a profit for "enetrepreneral" buddies of politicians exploiting the naives. All biomass on Earth is just low-efficiency converter of solar energy into chemical storage. Anything directly converting solar energy to consumable energy would beat anything bio hands down. Instead of covering acres with pools with algae you'd be ultimately better of covering these acres with solar batteries. But even if all suitable land on Eareth would be covered in solar batteries it would not satisfy planetary needs even close....

As far as gasoline prices go - I think it's obvious for anybody but blind that most of the price of the crude - is pure financial speculation that is used by international global corporate gangs free of any state regulations to create snow ski resorts in the hottest deserts, Bahrain(now Chinese)-owned Cirrus, Brunei-owned Piper, multiple bedroom golden flying houses in huge Boeings, barocco palaces in Russia, etc.

Price of energy is primary in any technological civilization - it can be declared theoreticaly to $1 (unit) forever and everything else can be derived from it by the market. "Free-market", "demand/supply" here is nothing but the popular way to explain away the global robbery and blackmail by robbers to those who are being robbed...

True solutions for planetary needs for clean renewable energy are in space - but if you didn't notice the current adminstration of once shining city on the hill for humanity, US of A, stopped and retired alltogether manned space program recently. No more future. Nothing. That's when you know that you're third world country already.... All we can do is to keep growing corn, make liquor and fat chickens.