[Re: Quite OT: NYTimes.com Article: TV Ads Say S.U.V. OwnersSupport Terrorists]

[drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew MacPherson)]

Sorry to disappoint, Cathy, Neal, Julie - but VW stole my heart decades 
ago... ;)

Biodiesel is something I'm watching with great interest - both as a driver 
of diesel powered vehicles and as a grower of oilseed crops.  There's 
actually a biodiesel sidebar in this months Better Farming (OFA 
mouthpiece) that hearlds chokecherry pits as the most efficient source of 
oil - both because they have a higher oil content than canola and flax 
(almost double per weight) and because the chokecherry pits are a 
biproduct of the fruit itself.  Apparently Ag Canada is doing overtime 
researching viable oilseed crops (especially for the drought-stricken 
prairies, where apparently Eithiopian mustard seed is most viable!)

Anyways, as our European listers have no doubt witnessed - biodiesel is a 
viable renewable resource (and, Ron, your Lupo 3cyl TDI will run on it!) 
that I expect to be seeing, at least in blended form, at pumps in Ontario 
within 18 months.

Drew


On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Cathy Boyko wrote:

> 
> 
> Hey, back off, Drew's mine...(just kidding ya buddy)
> 
> Another comment, Drew - did you notice that politician on the news a while
> back when they were trying to make us forget about our hydro bills, he drove
> up in a new TDI Jetta that was fuelled with biodiesel. I had to laugh, cause
> I'd be burning it if I had access to it, and I bet they had to show him how to
> get the thing into reverse. What a joke it was. (he was promoting the new
> initiatives to encourage alternative energies, as if they really cared)
> 
> Cathy, wishing my exhaust smelled like roasted peanuts instead of a bus
> station
> 
> "Julie Macfarlane" <juliemac57@hotmail.com> wrote:
> <<>Hehehehe, the other diesel nut speaks.
> >
> >I love you Drew :-P
> >
> >--
> >Eric
> >Northglenn, CO
> 
> 
> I am beginning to worry about these "French Fry Boys"...
> 
> Dat's only 'cause the french fry gal is already taken...
> 
>