We have had a guy here in the Kansas City Metro area pushing to reinstall light rail here for several years. The powers that were fighting a battle against him centered around his personality not the merits of the plan. In the last go round I guess they figured they had everyone convinced he was a kook so they just did not talk about the issue. Well, guess what, it passed. Now those same people are running around saying that it will never work and it will cost too much and and and ...
I don't suppose the fact that we have a Ford plant and a Chevy plant in the area has anything to do with it do you?

Brian,

There's good news for true conspiracists.

Even with irrefutable evidence before their eyes, people have become so complacent that as long as the beer's cold, there's gas in the car and Wheel of Fortune comes on at 7:30 pm, all is well with the world. :-)

Sad, but true. :S

You are a real history nut , I mean buff..

"Mr. Diesel demonstrated his engine at the Exhibition Fair in Paris, France in 1898. This engine stood as an example of Diesel's vision because it was fueled by peanut oil - the "original" biodiesel. He thought that the utilization of a biomass fuel was the real future of his engine."

My 25w laser runs on Diet Coke and 120v current.!

You have to remember that the VW Rabbit running around town powered by BurgerKing and MickeyD's cooking oil only became pressworthy around 30 years ago. and now with diesel fuel priced higher than gasoline...... well ,

" I'll take a Big Mac and top'er off......."

A friend of mine from England told me a story from his town a couple of years ago. A large market had cases of vegetable oil on sale at a low price. But they were amazed at the demand for it. They were selling hundreds of cases per day.

Turns out that a 50/50 mix of regular diesel fuel and vegetable oil works quite well in the diesel cars over there. And without the road tax and various other taxes the vegetable oil was far cheaper than diesel fuel. One byproduct was that the cars smelled like french fries.

Diesel cars are far more popular in Europe, and the diesel engines of the past couple of years and fuel seem to be more advanced than what is sold over here. Much cleaner and more efficient.

For about $10,000 you can buy a kit from a company in Missouri that will convert your deisel to run on vegetable oil. All you have to do, they say, is line up a couple of restaurants to give you their used frier oil. Then you have to process it. It works pretty well I hear but most people will not do it. (Can't find the time what with Wheel of Fortune on with current episodes plus in syndication too.)

It would really be great if someone could get a low level nuclear reactor small enough to run a car or truck. Even France understands the value and benefits of nuclear power. Why don't we?

So what you are saying is that our local KFC could make more money selling fuel than selling chicken. Could they then be know as the Kentucky Fuel Corp?(devil)

Dee

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)