wrote:
Now this is a lot of nonsense in one post:

Is is spelled DIESEL, like Rudolf Diesel,
who invented the diesel engine in 1892.
No Nazis, no vegetable oil, but coal.

You are correct, to a point.

Originally he used coal dust injected via compressed air.

Then vegetable oil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
http://www.ybiofuels.org/bio_fuels/history_diesel.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/analysis...sel/index.html

But no nazis.




Biodeisel has been around since the deisel engine was invented. In fact
deisel engines were originally run on vegeable oil in WWII by the Nazis who
invented it. It wasn't until later that is was run on the deisel fuel we use
now. I would say that doesn't really qualify as a fad. People have been
making it themselves ever since. Maybe the current surge of people buying
their stuff will be over in 5 years but people will always want a new way to
get fuel.

Bill

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