My next suggestion is to create a bio-diesel reserve.
The bio-diesel stored in reserve could be available in an energy crisis.
The number of petrol forecourts has fallen from 37,500 in 1970 to 9,000 in 2011, while the UK's diesel and petrol reserves have dropped to six-to-eight days, down by two days compared with 10 years ago.
John Goodrum, an associate professor of agricultural engineering who has been conducting research on peanut oil at the university for 10 years, said it is a good substitute for diesel fuel and could supplement fuel reserves.
But natural gas has accounted for only about a third of the fuel consumed by the corporation, which relies more heavily on coal, and also keeps limited reserves of diesel and fuel oil.
China is thought to have stockpiled oil supplies in recent months to assure adequate reserves of diesel fuel and gasoline for the Olympics in August and avoid embarrassing shortages while the country is trying to impress the world.
More likely: A law that would require refiners to maintain a five-day regional reserve of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel sufficient to maintain supplies in the face of disruptions like this summer's Gulf Coast hurricanes.
She also carried 183 LT of diesel oil, 256 LT of reserve feed water and 430 LT of freshwater.
She also carried 183 LT of diesel oil, 262 LT of reserve feed water and 442 LT of freshwater.
She could also carry 3,918 tons worth of fuel oil, 192 tons of diesel oil, 256 tons of reserve feed water and 444 tons of freshwater.
Turbine engines can run on nearly any hydrocarbon, including gasoline, methanol, ethanol or diesel fuel, but ample American coal reserves prompted engineers to consider it as a fuel.
