Your Questions About Biodiesel Prices

Is al gore’s “biodiesel” from crop conversions what’s driving grain prices so high so that people are hungry?

are you stocking up?

Where could I compare the prices of fuel?

I need to compare the prices of Octane, Ethanol, E-85, and Biodiesel.

Any help is much appreciated!

Can anyone tell me what is the prices corn oil, soya oil, rapeseed oil,jatropha oil,palm oil and sunflower oil

Where i can find vegetable oil with good price for production biodiesel?

Is it possible to run a home furnace on Vegetable oil or Biodiesel?

Oil hit $100/barrel today, my oil bill was outrageous (I live in the Northeast) before the price was this high. Since home heating oil is essentially diesel, and you can run Biodiesel/refined vegetable oil in a diesel powered automobile with virtually no modifications. Would it be possible to heat your home with these?

if gas prices hit $10/gal. and ethanol and biodiesel stay the same, then will people like biofuels?

what if oil goes to 225/barrel as has been predicted in the next 2 years or the 65%of our oil that we import is cut off, what will we do then? all farmers and people in the biofuels industry are well aware that corn and soybeans cannot supply all our fuel needs but can only supply a small percentage. biofuels are only a small part of the solution to our energy needs. please don’t kill something that is not a perfect solution. the energy in energy out from corn and soybeans is becoming better and better everyday.some ethanol plants are now locating near cattle feed lots and grain elevators. they are using the cattle manure for energy to power the ethanol plant. then the corn byproduct is then fed to the cattle.the winners for trying to do something to cut our oil use are the american citizens themselves. we can keep the money being exported out of our counrty for oil here. why can’t we produce something in our country and use it instead of importing 65% OF OUR ENERGY?

Biodiesel in Poland: price, raw materials, import/export, incentives, etc.?

Hello all,
I am intersted in information about biodiesel in Poland. Any references to websites will be appreciated. I am particularly intested in production, any incentives that government provides, import/export information, situation of raw materials, historical production data, free zones, major producers, current prices, current/past blend rate.

Thanks in advance.

When will people wake up to the fact that Biodiesel is not a viable replacement for Oil?

There are two key problems.

Firstly the change in use of arable land to biodiesel agriculture is creating an unholy competition between food for people, and “food” for cars, which has resulted in huge hikes in the price of food crops such as wheat, causing increasing starvation and poverty globally.

Secondly even if ALL global land use were turned over to biodiesel production, it would still be nowhere near enough. Presently 20% of US argricultural land is only producing enough biofuel for 2% of vehicles.

(source and reference http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/06/worse-than-fossil-fuel/)

So when will people wake up to this?
Checked out wiki on algae as suggested, turned up this “However, according to one 2007 study, algae-based biofuel will not be commercially viable until fuel prices exceed $800/barrel” – which of course doesn’t mean you are wrong. It just means that fuel will be ten times the present price IF a viable strain can be produced.
While scrap oil conversion into biofuel is just great, it would provide less than 0.3% of the fuel needed if all of it was used for fuel.
Just a thought Derek on this Algae stuff. Whatever claim is made algae-producing oil, the laws of physics are inviolate. Algae like any other plant fixes energy through photosynthesis which is essentially powered by the sun, and therefore subject to the 1kw/m^2 rule x process efficiency. The 4000-10000x as good as other biofuel looks on surface inspection to be little more than hype, comparing the top google search (which smacks of MLM) with the more balanced wiki entry.
@ Molly – same deal as chipfat. There are some good sources which can be converted from waste, but the volume of waste is nowhere near enough to solve the problem on its own. When have to start turning over land-use you hit exactly the same trouble.

“Battelle’s recent report entitled, “Near Term U.S. Biomass Potential”, looked at a scenario for producing 50 billion gallons of ethanol per year from cellulosic biomass. “The primary biomass supply would consist of waste biomass streams plus the production of energy crops.” The waste stream was estimated to contribute 40-50% of the supply. The report concluded that the expansion of biomass supplies needed to achieve this level of production “would not result in large impacts on the agricultural system.” Beyond this level of production, “dedicated energy crops would be required with implications for the cost of cropland and competition with food crops.”

http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org/enews/enews_0505/enews_0505_Cellulosic_Ethanol.htm

Bohemian, what you post is actually a consequence of the competition between land to be used for food or oil. In the first instance land upon which food production was not profitable becomes profitable for the first time. That is how it begins, but not where it ends.

How much the biodiesel price per gallon in bulk in U.S.A.?