Disgust & outrage aside: until those who profit from
the status quo can realize big profits from the
alternitives we all get the short end of the stick. And those
corporate entities are still makeing obsceane profits
from this disaster. Mud and golf balls will plug the leak--
WTF are they smokeing????
It's good that your friend can invest the time to collecting
used fry-a-latore grease. But that resource can only
support a small number of 'collectores'.
The 2 things against my useing Bio-diesel;
1-the stations selling it are a gallon [ @ 50mpg] out of the way.
Which with a 100 mile a day commute is excessive.
2-up here it's $0.25 a gal. more expensive than regular diesel.
The design concept of the diesel engine was to run on peanut oil,
but petro-diesel will have to go up some more to make buying
it at the supermarket cost effective. For several months I was
good about buying at Sunoco [ no middle east crude ] but switched
to the station that stays under $2.995 /gal.. But still do what
I can to Hyper-mile. saddly my new commute is too flat
and almost half is on the Interstate. Also do my bit to use
fewer Plastic products or packageing, recycle those I do.
Vent here but Tell yer congress critters it's time to save their
"phony balony jobs" by telling Big Oil it's time is over.
The whole situation is outrageous from the corrupt personnel in the federal minerals agency that were schmoozing wil oil executives rather than performing inspectings to BP running a lousy rig that continuously cut corners.
McDonalds..gladly gives their oil also..just incase anyone needs it!! In Vermont a guy would load up every other day or so..when I lived in Ca.on the organic farm .McDonalds also was the only fast food place that we had a contract with cause we ran all our electricity off of biodiesel that we converted from vegetable oil..but the truck we drove was ran off of staight vege oil!!
BTW seen you post.. welcome to the Group..
Your passion is well-directed, as the struggle to wean ourselves of our addiction to oil is a noble one.
I think about how our pevious administration demonized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Yet his government owned CITGO provides low cost heating oil in my own state of New York for the poor among us. Heaven forbid companies like BP would ever do something like that.
Just goes to show that our government's interests and agenda aren't necessarily the same interests as the American people have.
The spill is disgusting.... and so is our "dependence" on oil.
