soybeans

Oil prices and food prices are going to rise. The only choice we have is between two separate evils, not evil or no evil

After covering 22 of the most popular myths about biodiesel, I realized I’d only given lip service to a major issue: increasing food prices. If I use biodiesel made from soybeans right now, am I contributing to the larger problem of increasing commodity prices and starving poor people?

Ford Motor Company will be replacing up to 40% of their petroleum-based seat cushions with a new material made from soybean oil. “Soy foam” costs roughly the same to manufacture as traditional petroleum derivatives, but requires less energy to produce and may reduce environmental impacts by 75%.

Willie Nelson burst onto the environmental stage in 2005 with a grand unveiling of his own personal brand of biodiesel, BioWillie. His old, familiar face was in newspapers across the U.S., broadly smiling as Nelson lifted the nozzle of another new biodiesel pump in yet another gas station somewhere along a Midwestern highway. People suddenly remembered Willie Nelson... But something has happened to BioWillie.