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The article you linked to shows that company will not be using farmland. Was your point as this is the way to do it?The thing about the whole food use thing is that soy beans are subsidized and over produced. Large quantities are put in storage each year. Once so old, they are disposed of and the stores replenished with the latest batch. The idea behind it is to have reserves if there is a drought or something. The ones that are thrown away could be made into bio diesel. The remaining issue would be that if there was a drought, fuel production would go down because the beans would be used for food. The problem is that the government is not about being efficient, it is about short sighted people happy enough to vote for whoever implements something. Most Americans still think diesels are dirty so being greener with them is a harder sell and probably not worth the effort go grabbing votes. They would rather pump hydrogen fuel cells even though they are not practical because the theoretical completion of those systems is after the next election. Backing a solution that is practical now means the politicians would actually have to do something useful.
There was alot of talk on brewing up grasses that grow wild on the sides of the roads here ...