KanaMaunaKanaMauna@sauropods.win
Sep 20, 2026, 5:13 AM
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Urban HermitUrban_Hermit@mstdn.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:48 AM@KanaMauna
To be honest I thought diesel couldn't skyrocket because it could be easily made from vegetable oil. Any vegetable oil.- KanaMaunaKanaMauna@sauropods.winSep 20, 2026, 7:04 AM
@Urban_Hermit Production of biodiesel must be insufficient to keep up with demand.
- Urban HermitUrban_Hermit@mstdn.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:55 AM
@KanaMauna apparently.
The petrol companies kept the price of diesel low enough to make it uneconomical to produce bio-diesel, unless the vegetable oil was free for the taking from a used source. And even then the bio-diesel companies were mostly kept in business by government mandates - my state mandates 10% of diesel at the pump must be bio-diesel.
Online sources claim bio-diesel production cannot scale fast enough to cash in, and future demand is too uncertain to invest in infrastructure.
Eric Schutteericschutte@mastodon.nlSep 20, 2026, 7:14 AM@KanaMauna
Diesel in the Netherlands:
- eu 2,70/liter = eu 10,20/gallon
- eu 1 = $ 1,15
So
- 1gallon diesel in the netherlands is $11,73
And rising !!!!
#diesel
