Amazingly, this breakthrough was achieved without any government funding.

Here’s their web site:

http://www.evercatfuels.com/

-jcr

I am not in favor of subsidies for biofuels that distort economics and turn food into fuel, thus exacerbating global famine and raising food prices at home.

However, the work that the Piedmont Biofuels is doing is sustainable biofuels — they are making 1 million gallons of diesel per year out of the renderings from chicken processing — basically, chicken fat. So they’re recovering chicken fat out of the processors’ waste stream and turning it into fuel. There is a market for the chicken fat, but competing uses are things like soap and cosmetics — not food. I consider their work to be important because it is economically viable, sustainable, and socially just.

Likewise for the Piedmont Biofuels coop — they are recycling waste vegetable oil that would otherwise go into a waste processing facility. Again, sustainable, socially just, and not competing with food.

Blanket government subsidies for alternative energy erase the distinction between “good” and “bad” — which means that the “bad” stuff gets funded. That’s gotta change!

You really are a man after my own heart. I will pray that you get to Washington and ad another voice of reason and sanity to the halls of Congress. Building up our local economy through true self government / reliance is the only solution to the current crisis that is just getting started