01/05/2008 01:52:39 AM EST

Please interview this guy

posted by willie108

How can we break the OPEC oil cartel for $100 a car? Engineer Bob Zubrin has the answer

Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil,about how oil money funds terrorism, and about how proven off-the-shelf technology could undercut OPEC’s power.

 

I generally cannot stand instapundit but I hope that Cenk will interview this guy:

http://politicscentral.com/ 2008/01/02/the_glenn_helen_ show_bob_zubri.php 

It is an amazing book. 

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Please interview this guy | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 hidden)
Robert Zubrin is the Mars Direct guy (none / 0)
He's a smart cookie.

by jarett on 01/05/2008 03:31:24 AM EST

What about biodiesel? (none / 0)
Couldn't we do the same thing with biodiesel, (which we can make from oils that have already been used as a food source/cooking implement)? I listened to the interview, but there's gotta' be more to this than Trent Lott being a dickhead, and the Japanese manufacturer's not thinking they can compete. The whole flex-fuel thing just comes off like a GM advertisement. A guy at work, older (35 years with company), whose going to be retiring soon got a wild hair and started making biodiesel in his garage. He went out and bought an old Mercedes turbo-diesel, says it's costing him about 90 cents a gallon to produce. Unfortunately I think he made a fairly substantial investment to get started, around $3000 for a ready made kit, and of course had to go out and find fast food restaurants to collect used oil from. If you've got the time, it seems like a really great think to do though, stickin' it to Big Oil and all.

by gxttotten on 01/05/2008 04:00:10 AM EST

Yes (none / 0)
Algal-derived biodiesel is the fuel of the future.  Give it time.

by jarett on 01/05/2008 10:33:37 PM EST

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Algae Derived Biodiesel (none / 0)
Seems like a great idea. Clean up the coal process by algae filtration and create a source for biodiesel at the same time. The thing is, I was just reading in the Seattle Times about how biodiesel isn't fairing so well at present, which I don't know enough about to comment on. Here's the article.

http://seattletimes.nwsourc e.com/html/businesstechnolo gy/2004106767_imperium04.ht ml

by gxttotten on 01/05/2008 10:48:19 PM EST

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