I wonder how attractive bio-diesel is going to be now that the $1.00 per
gallon federal subsidy (paid to the refiners) expired on 12/31. A local
producer stated in a small newspaper article this week that he was receiving
$48000 per week from the Feds and thought that passing along the buck a
Interestingly enough, in Ecuador last week, diesel was $1.05/gal, gas
was $1.50/gal or so for Extra and $2ish for Super depending on where
we were. I had a little Daihatsu Terios, which was fairly frugal on gas
but severely underpowered for traveling at 14000ft altitude (or sea
level for that
i spent some of my childhood in quito. my dad was really dark and spoke a
passable spanish, so he passed ok (except he wore white shoes which screamed
i'm a foreigner). little me with milky skin and blond hair had no chance
and was just called gringo' by the regular folks.
it was very cool btw.
