We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease

18 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease”

1. This is unexpected!

2. Renewable diesel, eh?
   Don’t tell me they’ve given up already on the tried and true, cheap economical energy from wind and solar farms? My gawd, those faithful technologies have served Western civilization well for…lemme see…weeks and weeks, almost a few months!
   As wise old granpa back on the farm used to say: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Go back to old faithful wind and solar power — which built America — I say, why mess with this new fangled thing called “oil”?

3. Yup….just like solar and wind where the feedstock is allegedly free…..

4. I love it that they gave the price of production at $0.70/gallon… not including feed stock.
   Which ain’t free. By a looooong shot.
   Contrast that with the cost of producing diesel fuel from those filthy dirty TAR sands.

5. What are the rests of Neste’s costs? Closing this BS down is a litmus test for conservative political parties worldwide; you are either with the people, or you are with these eco-radicals in their war against the rest of humanity.

6. I’m not big on “Apocalypse” type stuff, but if anything is likely to complete the prediction of massive famine it will be the large-scale marketing of grain for fuel rather than for food, in the mad rush to replace petroleum.

7. hey if a guy want’s to drive to his local greesy spoon and empty there grease pit’s into his holding tank and add some ly and a few other thing’s and create his own fuel i say great, stacy david did this on trucks check it out at freedomfuel dot . com . I think that is great but why a govornment would ever want to be a parto f this i have no idea becasue it is very costly on a large scale i think.

8. Fake diesel. An answer to a question no one asked.

9. I’ve been sayin’ this for years:
   “If only everyone would start eatin’ fries 24/7 we’d cut our dependancy on fossil fuels by .000367 percent overnight.”
   All these guys need is a new plant manager. Hey! North of 60,can you help these clowns out?

10. Chevy Volt sales exploded in August to 300 units.
    Three Hundred !!
    Imagine if they had designed it run on french fry fat instead?

11. Paul in Calgary – yeah, I saw that show. It looked ridiculously expensive on a small scale as well. They had some fairly costly equipment to generate their bio-diesel in small quantities.
    On a large scale we also have diversion of food resources such as corn (as has been mentioned) as well as a nutty left-wing that doesn’t want anybody to eat fried food anymore! Where is all this waste french fry oil supposed to come from when we’re all eating soy burgers?

12. The Left /Greens become more deluded by the year.

13. A few years ago a “grease-bus” came down here to St. John’s,
    ultimately from BC. It ran, and ran well, on used restaurant
    cooking oil. Well, almost. The used cooking oil was free but the
    oil filters cost a fortune.

14. Only greenwashed fools believe that growing oil crops for fuel is a good idea. The land and water should be used for growing food not fuel. It will always be more economical to make diesel fuel from abundant heavy oil, coal, or natural gas.
    However, it makes good sense to make biodiesel from used cooking oil, waste tallow and fat, and from substandard oilseed. Adding biodiesel to petro-diesel significantly reduces the harmful particulate emissions and reduces toxic pollution from diesel fuel. What sort of idiot would think that’s a bad idea?

15. “Adding biodiesel to petro-diesel significantly reduces the harmful particulate emissions and reduces toxic pollution from diesel fuel.”
    Exactly, by how much, worldwide? … and, if you wouldn’t mind, at what cost?

16. The natural place for used cooking oil to be utilized would seem to be as a supplement in animal feed.
    Or environut feed.

17. Exactly, by how much, worldwide? … and, if you wouldn’t mind, at what cost?
    As much as you want.
    Worldwide? no at the exhaust pipe.
    About $0.50 per liter.

18. Okay, you’ve had your fun taking easy swipes at the renewable fuel industry.
    Just remember that — contrary to all the rhetoric you hear, that the real purpose of this isn’t to produce renewable fuels *now*.
    50 years from now when we’ve exhausted most of the fuel sources we use today, we’ll still need fuel. And we’ll be much better off if people make the mistakes now, than if they only start making them in 50 years.
    Real, substantive innovation takes a long time to develop when you’re talking about the entire energy industry.