Comments on: Malaysia, Indonesia Will Pump Out 40% More Palm Oil Biodiesel

By: Narendra Patel

Narendra Patel — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:11:37 +0000

i am interested to purchase palm oil & biodiesel to indial. please send your best prise to CIF India.

By: Gavin Hudson

Gavin Hudson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:14:41 +0000

Dear Mr. Zimmerman,

Thank you for the resource and link.

Best,

Gavin

By: Richard Zimmerman

Richard Zimmerman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:12:23 +0000

I came across your article and felt obliged to point out another downside to palm oil. In order to cultivate it, palm oil corporations completely level the forests. Hundreds of thousands of square acres of pristine rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia have already been converted– and every living creature in these forests has been systematically killed in the process. Just as a side note, the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere from this destruction is far greater than the carbon coming from the glut of SUVs burning fossil fuels as they speed across the highways of North America.

By far, the biggest victim of the palm oil industry is the orangutan. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are the only place where orangutans live, and the cultivation of palm oil has directly led to the horribly brutal deaths of thousands of individuals.

Orangutan Outreach is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing the extinction of orangutans in the wild. Its mission is twofold: 1) bringing attention to the crisis facing orangutans from the spread of palm oil plantations, and 2) raising funds for orangutan rehabilitation projects in Borneo. Orangutan Outreach supports the efforts of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, whose main care center, Nyaru Menteng, is featured on Animal Planet’s series ‘Orangutan Island’. The orphanage is now home to over 650 orangutans– many as young as a few weeks old. Nearly all of their mothers have been murdered by palm oil companies. When rainforest is being cleared, adult orangutans are shot on sight. Babies are often ripped off their dying mothers and sold on the black market to rich families as illegal pets.

To learn more about the crisis facing wild orangutans from palm oil and see how you can help, please visit the Orangutan Outreach website: http://redapes.org

Maybe you’d even like to adopt a baby orangutan!

Thank you for your time,

Richard Zimmerman
Director, Orangutan Outreach
http://redapes.org
Reach out and save the orangutans!

By: Gavin Hudson

Gavin Hudson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:50:56 +0000

C Bird, I agree that public transit is the way to go. Good to know that about Prague. It’s sounding more and more like an excellent place to live.

By: C Bird

C Bird — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:08:09 +0000

Better yet, people could stop driving and use public transport. That would solve many problems. I work at hotel in Prague and the public transport is so good that I have only been in a car once since I’ve been here.

By: C Bird

C Bird — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:21:15 +0000

Honestly, when you consider the alternative to using things like palm oil or sugar cane to make fuel, palm oil is certainly the lesser of two evils. Palm oil is at least sustainable where drilling for oil is not.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:43:30 +0000

Bio-diesel from palm is a renewable sustainable fuel, and like most bio-diesels is if not edible, at least non-poisonous! Americans won’t use diesel in their cars, they feel they are too good for that! – they are sick bastards and they are about to learn a life lesson even their bombs and planes can’t prevent – we are out of oil! If the U.S. had chosen to be a moral people, and leaving Iraqi oil alone, and following Al Gore, decided to develop the South Western deserts, with the technology of the times – solar/thermal-molten sodium – electricity installations, for the same amount of money as that war cost, ($650 Billion), today, we would be tapping into the largest, renewable, sustainable, energy source the world has ever known. It would have paid every energy bill in the U.S.A. for maintenance fees only – FOREVER! It would be equivalent to an oil field that can NEVER run dry! Low cost electric power, and storeable hydrogen gasoline replacement from the electricity, for all!
After the millions of murders, and $650 billions of dollars, borrowed from our children’s futures and pissed away, with thousands of our own and others maimed and disfigured for life, millions of families utterly destroyed, ours and theirs, we are no closer to Iraqi oil production than the Iraqis are!
The next time you hear a blithering idiot spoiled brat, drunken, drug addicted, sociopath, rich Arabic saber dancing daddie’s boy oilman, stand at a microphone and threaten YOUR safety with someone ELSE’S weapons, remember what you lost America, remember, and weep! (also see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan)