Post by guest author, Paul Martin, author of (2006), "Biodiesel for the Small Producer".
Biofuels or specifically biodiesel which I have been involved with for many years presents us with the opportunity to reduce or increase emissions. Biodiesel is available at approximately 100 bowsers in Australia and one can drive all over Germany without a drop of fossil diesel needed. Biodiesel can be made by the tankful at home (see the Grown Fuel website) or by the ton loads twenty-four hours per day. Following the "bigger-makes-more-money" theme, Australia could have the capacity for 1 billion litres of installed biodiesel production by the end of 2007 - if this plan was not flawed by the drought, a movement to decentralised production and the stabilising (for now) oil price. The movement to decentralise production by making biodiesel on a smaller scale in regional areas has been promoted by people who grow oil seed crop.
