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Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use
grumpyman writes "A C$14 million factory near Montreal started producing biodiesel fuel two weeks ago from the bones, innards and other parts of farm animals. At full capacity plant will produce 35 million liters (9.2 million U.S. gallons) of biodiesel a year, the greenhouse gas equivalent of removing 16,000 light trucks or 22,000 cars from the roads."
I think the real solution is to get the general public from doing something other than driving everywhere.
Where I live, people even use their cars to take the trash from their apartment to the trash can. (Which is about 100ft away).
Unfortunately, our leaders seem to feel that it is cheaper to wage war than it is to build a mass transit infrastructure and work towards social change.
This whole culture of "living 100 miles from where you work" has to end -- now. People seem to have forgotten there was a time when cars didn't exist. Where you could buy food one the same block as you live. Where travelling 10s of miles a day wasn't necessary.
Unfortunately, the big companies aren't real excited about this... Places like Wal-mart only enjoy large economies of scale because people have the *capability* to drive across town to get to the store. Yes, city buses also go there, but I don't think such a large store could exist if buses where the primary mode of transportation.