[SGVLUG] Especially for Tom & his Prius....

[James Neff]

David Lawyer wrote:

>The diesel is in fact inherently a pretty bad polluter.
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What if we used biodiesel made from soybeans?  I don't have hard data,
but from what I was told the carbon dioxide consumed during the beans
growth cancels out the CO2 produced while burning it.  Also, soybean is
hearty and doesn't require as many fertilizers and pesticides as corn
does for ethanol production.  Biodiesel is a solution to the oil problem
that we could implement now and can burn in any diesel engine without
conversion cost.