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domefoamer - I'll take that "lead in gasoline" quip as nothing more than an attempt at sarcasm. You evidently spend too much time listening to Air America. BTW - hydrocarbons are not classed as gases, they are what the uninformed refer to as "fossil fuels" e.g. petroleum, coal, natural gas. I suppose you still cling to the theory that hydrocarbons are biotic in origin. I got news for you - that train left the station decades ago. The Russian-Ukranian theory of an abiotic origin of hydrocarbons is now the cutting edge theory. CO2 is not harmful, otherwise all plant life would die out. The cold hard fact is that we may need to double atmospheric CO2 (to maintain cultivation of ag products) if we are going to feed an ever growing world population. CO2 is a minor player in the whole greenhouse effect, amounting to roughly 1% of the entire greenhouse effect (with man's CO2 contributions from the burning of hydrocarbon fuels amounting to less than 1/10 of 1% of the greenhouse effect). In case you forgot, dyhydrogen monoxide (e.g. water vaport) is the primary greenhouse gas, accounting for 95% of the greenhouse effect. Increasing atmospheric CO2 is a good thing, not something to become hysterical about. CO is a deadly poison if inhaled. CO is also useful as a combustable gas for the production of energy. CO and CO2 can be utilized to create synthetic natural gas (CO and CO2 combined with hydrogen are processed over a nickel catalyst to create the synthetic methane). If you really want to help the farmers, start by supporting legislation to create competition among railroads for the hauling of ag products to market, and get the worthless econazis off their collective backs. Those two things would be worth far more than propping up pointless biofuels made from primary crops. BTW - If you burn nothing but biodiesel in the entire production of biodiesel from the first tillage of the fields to the distribution of biodiesel to the fuel stations, you might not even break even in terms of the energy use equation. Biodiesel is truly a zero sum game.
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