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Re:Trucking accounts for one-fourth of the fuel used on U.S.... by noneeeed on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:26AM (#21133841)
Depends on the source of course. McDonalds in the UK claim to fuel about half their fleet of delivery vehicle with the used oil from their own restaurants.

If you get the source right, biofuels are great. But as you say, get it wrong (e.g. the EU policy of encouraging bioethanol) and it is disastrous for biodiversity.

I'm surprised we are not doing more with sewage, but I suspect that is to do with the difficulty of processing such a mixed substance, and the amount of infrastructure that would have to be changed.

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Re:Trucking accounts for one-fourth of the fuel used on U.S.... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:21AM (#21137418)
I’m familiar with efforts to use sewage and landfill gas for small scale fleet fueling needs (local municipality and garbage collection vehicles), I just don’t think it scales up much beyond that.
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