Supporters of biodiesel alternative fuel solutions are having rough days right now. The supply of grain stocks across the world are at all-time lows and prices at all-time highs. This results in extra incentives to wipe out forest land to plant crops – which is starting to wipe out precious South American and Southeast Asian rainforest areas that are the home and resources for indigenous peoples and which hold reserves of immense quanitities of carbon. These areas are also the site of dense populations of biodiversity. To sacrifice them for car fuel is a heinous crime. Anyone who wants to argue that committing these atrocities against nature and the environemnet amount to helping Third World countries to survive better economically will have to account for a stark fact: transnational agribusiness interests, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midlant, to name names, , extract the greatest concentration of profits for Brazilian soy and Asian palm. Their environmental and social record is dismal. That's why it's fantastically depressing to see what's happening to of the U.S. biodiesel industry. Biodistillers nationwide now realize that the survival of their business activities rely heavily on the randomness of world trade. That is to say, cheaper soy and palm oil from Asia, Africa, and Latin America increasingly replace domestically grown soy oil. Environmentally conscious Europe takes most of the U.S.-produced fuel. So here is how it works. To make production viable for this "homegrown renewable fuel," farmers have had to resort to obtaining the feedstock from environmentally vulnerable regions and sending the fuel to Europe. Even worse, the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bill the whole thing: biodiesel producers get a $1 excise tax credit on each gallon of bio fuel that is mixed with regular diesel -- even when it gets sold to foreign countries. If one does the math then they see that the economics around use of biodiesel as a domestic alternative fuel source have collapsed, even accounting for the $1/gallon subsidy: It takes 7.7 pounds of soy oil to produce a single gallon of biodiesel -- or $4.34 --. Consider overhead and other processing costs (approximately 70 cents per gallon), federal and state taxes (fify four cents), and subtract the dollar tax credit, and a gallon of biodiesel could cost the consumder $4.58 at the pump. Last week the average cost for the consumer for a gallon of regular diesel was $3.86. So how can these companies profitably sell the stuff to Europe? Might ask another question for the answer to that one… qui bono? (who benefits) from the incredible shrinking dollar? . Factor in the horrendous currency exchange and U.S. producers turn out to be competitive with their European rivals. As long as the dollar stays in the dumps, pushed down by the enturbulance on Wall Street and voracious oil use (unimpeded by biofuel), U.S.-grown biodiesel, with the raw material being sourced from the global south, will continue to flow to Europe. The question becomes this: to what ecological end? And a better question… what can the average American car owner do? An effective solution exists that Americans can do on their own to help with increase infuel economy without needing to wait for Big Brother to come to the rescue WATER4GAS is providing information at a low price which folks can use in their garage or wherever to put together a small device which instills hydrogen into the gas/air mixture that their vehicle runs on. The process makes bite sized particles out of the particles that the engine burns as fuel. Because of the smaller size the engine gets to use considerably more of the fuel. By doing this you can minimumly expect to increase your fuel economy by 30-50% or significantly more. Those particles "musta" been pretty darn huge in some engines before. But with WATER4GAS they are made usable so you can increase your fuel economy. It also helps make emissions significantly cleaner. This information has been purchased by over NINE THOUSAND car owners already and happy members number about 99%! So how about you?
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Supporters of biodiesel alternative fuel solutions are having rough days right now.
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