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Originally Posted by sperry
Ethanol/Biodiesel is modern-day snake-oil.
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Please do not lump biodiesel in with ethanol in the snake oil category. When gas and diesel cost $5-$10/gallon in the not-too-distant future, biodiesel will still only cost $3-$4/gallon. It also require no conversions on vehicles produced after 1990 or so, nor does it require any remapping in the ECU to work at 100%. Also it can be made from many things besides food crops - like animal processing waste, crappy seeds like rapeseed and camelina, and in the future algae.
When Diesel (the man) first conceived of his engine he envisioned it to run on vegetable oil. At the 190? Worlds Fair he ran his demo on peanut oil.