Hey Ed,
Out here in Cali there might be sensitivity to it, and on that note it
kinda defeats the purpose of the carbon sequestering and being a
renewable.
I think that securing a known feedstock will be of value for marketing
purposes. I was thinking along the lines of having different 'grades' of
fuel based on feedstock. It could be used very effectively in a marketing
campaign. Something like the following:
B100-M = Mixed feedstock source (could be animal, vegetable, SVO, or WVO,
GMO and/or non-GMO)
B100-V = Vegetable based feedstock (GMO or non-GMO, but not Organic)
B100-O = Organic based feedstock
V and O could be used together in the following manner:
B100-VO = Vegetable and Organic feedstock
It would be a good thing to distinguish the product from other producers
as well as maybe trademarking some nifty name for the product. Although
it is really a 'perception' issue, it is a great marketing tool that can
be used to one's advantage. It would be difficult to convince people of
the carbon sequestering of animal based BD. ;-)
James
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Neoteric Biofuels Inc wrote:
> James: side issue...how do people feel about the fact that much
> biodiesel will be coming from animal fats, especially in warm climates?
>
> Will commercial biodiesel need to be sold as veg and non-veg origin,
> aside from this WVO/SVO source issue, (which is silly, there is no CO
> sequestering advantage to new oil versus oil that spent a week in a
> fryer).
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 10:43 AM, James Slayden wrote:
>
> > Hola,
> >
> > In talking with someone recently who is interested in purchasing some
> > biodiesel, and interesting comment came up in our email exchange. He
> > indicated that he was more interested in biodiesel made from crude VO
> > than
> > that made of WVO. I was trying to convince him that the WVO option was
> > better due to the recyclable nature of the WVO, but he insisted that
> > the
> > CO sequestering was better of the more recent growing cycle. I had a
> > difficult time convincing him that it was the same .... but oh well.
> > He
> > didn't even care about the GMO feedstock issue!!
> >
> > I guess what this leaves me with is a customer perception problem of
> > crude
> > VO vs. WVO based biodiesel. I am wondering why that perception issue
> > exists and how to overcome it in talking w/ people who are not
> > biodiesel
> > geeks. I know that most of the folks at the Berkley BD Co-op are
> > religiously pro-WVO BD and will absolutely not put GMO-VO biodiesel in
> > their vehicles. So there is the dichotomy in interest of the different
> > feedstocks for biodiesel.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > James Slayden
> >
> >
> >
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