Hi all, Prop 23 is not Valero Oil's only evil move on energy policy... See: Valero plans JV biodiesel plant with Darling International http://cleantech.com/news/5020/valero-darling-jv-biodiesel-vlo-adr Not only will such a move start a worldwide further ramping up of the incredibly environmentally disastrous factory animal ag industry, but under such a scenario, the current users of Darling's tallow and other fats (cosmetics, soap, paint and feed producers) will switch to crop based fats; most likely palm oil - because it is the cheapest alternative to rendered fats. This, combined with an inevitable resulting increase in factory based animal agriculture, will simply perpetuate and expand the same problem of excess greenhouse gas releases via land use shifting and deforestation, that is already being caused by -direct- plant based biofuel production. Darling is making a move locally -now- which may reach a final vote in San Francisco on Tuesday October 12th. See: http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/09/09/darling-international-enters-... More Details & International Implications Also see attached, a new report commissioned by the UK Department Of Transport 'Tallow_Biodiesel_Report_AEA' which shows that greenhouse gas emissions will -increase- when tallow rendering plants like the Darling facility are converted to produce biodiesel. Note too that the UK report is very limited in scope and doesn't even consider the problems of land use shifting and deforestation. This is not just a local issue. Darling is planning to do this with its rendering plants all over the world, and the move must be stopped in San Francisco, in order to keep it from getting press hype and spreading. Eric Brooks 415-756-8844