Ignite Portland 2 - Biodiesel: the stuff you need to know (Brian Jamison)

Biodiesel is a renewable fuel made from vegetable oil. Sure, it smells like french fries when you burn it, but is it safe to use? Do I have to convert my car to use it (and if so, how?) If it's so great how come everyone isn't using it? Does it take more energy to create it than you get out of it? Won't we have to give up food production to make it? What about my warranty?Find out the surprising, astounding and/or amazing answers to these and a dozen (or so) of the most common questions about biodiesel!

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[drewish]

if you really had read up on peak oil you'd know that the problem is the rate of energy consumption. right now we're using energy stored up over thousands of years. there's no alternative energy source we can move to and continue to use at our current rates.

it's easy to look back now and see all the problems with oil. it's much harder to look past the rosy, feel good picture painted by the biofuels companies and see that those same problems are still there.

[2000thingsred]

poster drewish is either woefully uneducated on the subject or employed by an oil company.

Biofuels are just as bad as oil? Wha????? Do a little reading on peak oil.

And of course we have to reduce. Didn't the guy say that?

[drewish]

I thought there weren't supposed to be sales pitches. This guy is as bad as Shell or BP. Biofuels are just as bad as oil. The problem is how much energy we consume not the form it takes. Rather than asking people to shift the deck chairs on the Titanic and feel good about it we should be trying to reduce our driving.