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Hey, what about the fact that my son converted a mercedes diesel to veggie oil (kit cost about $1,000) and the car went from 1.0 percent unburnt hydrocarbons to 0% hydrocarbons. that's right--none, and the exhaust was no longer dirty smelly, but smelled like warm popcorn. why isn't anyone pushing for that? i simply cannot believe we cannot push for more diesel autos and convert the existing ones. buses and trucks account for 30 to 40 percent of pollution. people are getting asthma, emphasema anda whole host of lung diseases from pollution, and yet our Illinois EPA tests showed no hyrdrocarbons. I also have a friend who says the latest breakthru in agriculture is taking seeds from plants during a certaint time and at a certain location can produce 7 to 10 times the normal yield from them. what gives? why can't we save ourselves from this evil foreign oil, produce corn oil ourselves and solve pollution?
Do you really think we could produce enough corn oil to run the millions of cars in this country? And who is going to pay for this conversion? Where's the corn oil coming from? Would we have enough feed corn for our cattle? (let alone for human consumption). "7 to 10 times the normal yield", no need to develop that technology, we've got secret carburetors that will give us over 100 miles to the gallon! Yeh sure!! Ding-a-ling ding ding!!
Don't forget the problems of disposing of chemicals associated with converting the oil into something usable. Water consumption would increase as well.
"Don't forget the problems of disposing of chemicals associated with converting the oil into something usable. Water consumption would increase as well."
Not to mention the probable need to increase land set aside for farming, which means less available land for development and housing for our ever-increasing population.