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New biodiesel station opens in Santa Cruz

by Ed Oberweiser
A new biodiesel station will have a grand opening in Santa Cruz on Saturday, April 21 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Ocean Street.
Pacific BioFuels had a grand opening of their new biodiesel fuel station on the cormer of Ocean Street and Soquel Avenue on April 21. All Santa Cruzans and visitors to our city can now use the more sustaiinable fuel, biodiesel.

The opening features live music by Keith Greninger, Horizon, Steve Robertson and Yuji.
Ray Newkirk, of Pacific BioFuels, said the station will also sell organic food, coffee and electric bicycles.

The city of Santa Cruz has goals of reducing CO2 emissions. What better way than refueling with a renewable fuel from U.S. farmers. FOSL urges all diesel car owners to patronize the only striclty biofuel station this side of Berkeley.

The station also supports the Santa Cruz Green Building program by using recycled fuel tanks, fuel dispensers and even the fencing surrounding the tanks is mostly recycled lumber and locally grown bamboo.

To find out more about Pacific BioFuels, contact Ray Newkirk, ray [at] pacfuel.com. Also for more information about price quotes, orders and deliveries, call Pacific BioFuel at 831-457-1328 or email them at: info [at] pacfuel.com
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by The Last Wild Thing (feralforagesc [at] riseup.net)
Rainforests are being logged to grow GMO corn that's used for nothing but your fucking biofuels.

Conquering and exploiting every last piece of arable land for agriculture, especially cash crop agriculture, is nothing new: it is the basis of your civilization. That, and the misery and oppression of those of us born into domestication and slavery. EVEN IF this biodiesel is coming from industrial agriculture on U.S. land [already stolen from indigenous peoples and deforested], and even if we ignore the appalling environmental effects of industrial agriculture (massive water consumption, toxic runoff, etc.), the perpetuation of car culture is an absolutely despicable goal. Maybe while you're driving cars, you'd still rather use locally-produced (or at least sold) biodiesel rather than gasoline/diesel from Iraq, and that's of course a choice that you can make, but to see running your car on biodiesel (or, and I retch to think of it, setting up a huge corporate chain so that everyone drives cars running on biofuels) at all being liberatory or sustainable or life-affirming is utter insanity and blindness and should be spat upon. Let's not waste our time pathetically cheering and promoting capitalist businesses, especially not green capitalist businesses.

I never thought I would ever quote Fidel Castro approvingly about anything, but he at least has asked, "Where are the more than 500 million tons of corn and other cereals which the United States, Europe and wealthy nations require to produce the gallons of ethanol that big companies in the United States and other countries demand in exchange for their voluminous investments going to be produced and who is going to supply them? Where are the soy, sunflower and rape seeds, whose essential oils these same, wealthy nations are to turn into fuel, going to be produced and who will produce them?" (http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/05/18389637.php)
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