Oliomap is your Wikimap for biodiesel and VegOil services
It's not easy converting a diesel engine to run on Vegetable Oil. We just wrote about New Orleans blogger Matt Robinson's trouble converting his VW truck, and our own Ray Holan has had his special set of issues. But, while we were talking about the problems, Vincent Tervooren is trying to find solutions.
The key to a good VegOil conversion is a good mechanic, and that's one of the resources you can search for on Oliomap.com, Tervooren's Global Biofuel Resources Map. More useful data available that AutoblogGreen readers will find useful are the biodiesel and VegOil distribution centers. Users can not only find local services, but also rate them and discuss in Oliomap's forums. It's kind of quiet over there now, but Oliomap is only a few months old and has a lot of potential, so I expect it to grow as people use and like the site.
You can see from the screen grab of the map today (above) that most of the user-inputted businesses are in Europe and America (and give it up for South Africa!). If you run or use a business that fits with Oliomap's theme, go ahead and add them to the map. If you use the map and have good or bad results, let us know.
[Source: Oliomap]
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Doug R 9:42AM (1/25/2007)
Finding a way to use something that it basically already thrown away is using your head. Kudos to whomever figured it out. However, requiring people to use fuel that is more expensive than gasoline is not. Forcing people to drive cars they don't want through rediculously high CAFE standards is not. These types of solutions are elitist and screams oligarchy. It also requires no brain power or ingenuity whatsoever.
Oil Companies net 8 cents a gallon profit while federal and state govs. average 35+ cents per gallon in taxes. The socialist state of New York is over 50 cents, more than 5 times the profit of big, evil oil.
Environmental lobbies have made it so there have been no refineries built in this country for 30 yrs. while demand has tripled. Enough is enough.
Government environmental genuises require that there be 40 different blends of fuel. Not 10 or 15, but 40. This thinking has jetisoned over the line of being imbecilic. It is a supply and demand nightmare. Probably the primary reason for the cost of fuel being what it is or very close to it.
Oil companies cannot drill in places like ANWR because everyone is convinced it will destroy the environment. Enviros show pictures that are more than 30 yrs. old to prove this is so. Methods have changed and have improved ten fold. Most of the time you can't even tell they were there (except for a pump jack). The people who like to scare everyone knows this to be true.
All of this leads to the latest man induced global warming con game. It's yet another shot at providing an excuse to dictate to the masses. Time to wake up folks! Check out www.co2science.com for the truth.
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