Willie’s starting a biodiesel company. Here’s a decent question: The article said that BD’s average price per gallon is about $1.80, which makes it competitive at today’s fuel prices. What is its energy ratio? One of the gripes over ethanol as a gasoline substitute is that it takes more BTU’s (growing and harvesting corn, fermenting and distilling, etc) to make a gallon of ethanol than the gallon of ethanol contains. Is BD more efficient to make than ethanol? If so, I’m much more hip to BD vehicles than I am to hybrids.
Plus, BD kills two problems that hybrids don’t touch:
Now that I think about it, my guess is that you could use hemp-seed oil to make biodiesel. Guess Willie just (Insert marajuana joke here)
- decided it was time to empty out his couch.
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