Re: ethanol

In article <4804B6F6.1A991507@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique
allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )" <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>Charles Bishop wrote:

[recycling cooking oil]
>> 
>> Then we're done. I'm for sure not going to drop it off. I don't have to
>> drop off my recycling, they come get it so it would be a separate trip.
>>
>Why would it be a separate trip if you were already going to the
>place you were dropping it off at? This is how they take plastic
>shopping bags back at grocery stores.

Who is going to collect it? Not my local grocery store, not my local
h'ware store, not my local barbershop, nor Staples, usw. Who is going to
collect that is a destination for me?
>
>
>> What percentage of the population have to participate and what total
>> volume would make it worthwhile?
>> 
>Since people would be dropping it off, I suspect that any
>participation would be viable. Being a drop off location could be
>worth it to a McDonalds because people might also stop off and eat
>a meal there. At least McDonalds could claim it was doing its part
>for the environment.

Ok, this is one place. How are you going to convince McDonalds to act as a
reclycling/storage location? It's going to take manpower to
accept/store/monitor the stuff. And here's the thing. I don't go to McD
regularly so it doesn't work for me.

>> I don't, but there a many other people like me who don't have enough.
You
>> could make it up in volume.
>>
>I guess it depends on what you mean by a lot. At $4.50 a gallon, I
>suspect that sending the kids out monthly with a wagon to pick up
>peoples' pails of grease starts to be worth it. 

It's not $4.50 a gallon for the stuff you pick up. On the "Dirty Jobs" tv
show, it cost the man $.50/gallon after he had converted it, and he got
his oil free. So, it would be worth maybe $0.10/gal in the raw state? How
many gallons can a kid with a wagon trans****t from the pickup sites to the
dropoff sites? Would they do it for $0.10/gal? If not, how much would you
have to pay them?

>> >Even if you used a deep fryer?
>> 
>> Why the hypothetical?
>> 
>If you aren't using a deep fryer, you don't have as much oil to
>dump, by far. OTOH, if you were using one, you might wonder about
>dumping out a half gallon of oil.

I told you I don't use much oil. Can you infer from that that I don't use
a deepfryer? I thought you could.

Oh, by the way, we're talking about my willingness to do this. I'm not
because of my cir***stances. If you think others are, set up a pilot
program and see how far it goes.

-- 
charles