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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

This is classic throw the baby out with the bath water.  ANY reduction is a 
good thing.  Plus, you reframed the discussion.  Individuals can make a 
difference which is precisely what you do with your own little corner of the 
world.  The advice was sound for the purpose proposed.  And, we were talking 
diesel of which we use 6 billion gallons a year.  Nor were we worrying about 
providing the whole world with fuel.  Could you perhaps explain why others 
are so vigorously dissauded by you from doing anything each time anything 
pro-active is brought up on the list.

BTW, coconut oil is used in SVO vehicles.  Some oils no longer require the 
purified CO2 in the refining process.  You can manufacture oils from yeasts, 
fungus, bacteria, etc. too.  One is not limited to seed oil plants.  And 
there is also YG along with the WVO that are used.  There are now closed 
loop plants.  Steps are being made to reduce, not replace, the use of fossil 
fuel.

Plus, commercial boilers can, and some currently do, use SVOs that include 
linseed, tung, rapeseed, palm kernel, lard, butter, tallow and YG.

As to Brazil, the point wasn't comparing the size or use in Brazil, the 
point was they don't use virgin/first source anything.  In this country 
alone we landfill enough wood and wood scrape from mills to create enough 
ethenol to fuel several fleets for a year.  One more waste product that can 
be used.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Turpintine, for example, coconut oil, pine resin, unrefined linseed oil, 
> raw
> corn oil, etc.  About a quarter of the vegetable oils produced in the 
> world
> are either suitable in their natural state or else are refined (such as 
> fryer
> oils) to the extent that they are suitable for direct use as biodiesel.