" Gas station looks at gas-free future"

[GreenPartyVoter]

SAN DIEGO, California (AP) -- If the United States is going to end its addiction to oil, the fuel station of the future might look like Pearson Ford Fuel Depot.

Along with gasoline and diesel, the one-of-a-kind station -- part of a dealership near busy Interstate 15 -- offers a full range of clean-burning alternative fuels from ethanol to propane to BioWillie, a brand of biodiesel made from soybeans and promoted by country music legend Willie Nelson.

The station isn't profitable yet. But co-owner Mike Lewis said that could change if oil prices force consumers to seriously consider other fuels -- especially in San Diego, which regularly pays among America's highest gas prices. (Watch what's the lesser of two evils with gas prices -- 2:01)

"If you could make it profitable, you could do a whole lot more to preserve the environment than all the mandates in the world," Lewis said.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/12/alternative.fuel.ap/index.html

[Deja Q]

1. How much will Willie spend on the oil needed to sow, cultivate, and reap

the soybeans?

it's a pipedream. A crackpipedream.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Unless you come up with alternatives for that as well

[eleny]

3. I saw a news piece about a farmer who made his own fuel

It was on tv in the past two weeks. He made fuel from a crop he grew. So, I wonder how much alternative fuel can be made to run farming machinery. It looks like it can be done. Something to look into.