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I think this was taken back in 1947 when money was scarce, and I do not believe you could just go down to your local WalMart and buy a $20 wading pool. Also if you read the statement about the pool it was "laminated neoprene and cloth" which means it not only was had to be cleaned up very good in order for the laminate to stick, but was laminated with Neoprene which is like rubber. This sealed any remaining containments in, and kept the child safe. Also, since you can go out and buy a $20 wading pool in our time, you would never have to worry about subjection you child to this in our time.

I used to work for a biodiesel plant in Nevada, I was the Sr. Site Manager, and was laid of due to rising production costs. Since the plant I worked at was forced to shut down due to this, and the new facility being built seems to be put on hold halfway through the build. The cost of Crude Soybean oil, a major item needed to may ASTM standard meeting biodiesel, tripled the first of 2008. When you consume 2 rail cars a week at, lets say $60K each, and then the cost triples now its $180k apiece how do you ever expect this industry to grow. Sure we used other feedstocks, we were one of the few multi-feedstock facilities in the U.S. (Which means we used anything from used cooking oil, sunflower seed oil, and even pig fat. We used different amounts of soy oil depending on the free fatty acid content of these feedstocks to keep production possible) Do to the increase in demand the cost shot up, so plants all over the U.S. are going under. The government needs to regulate this in some way if they ever want this market to succeed. I also do not understand why plants would dump grease illegally when this is not needed, something the company I worked for never did. "135,000 gallons of GREASE is going to choke a river, no matter if it’s biodegradable." Almost all by products of production are reusable, the main one being Glycerin. This gives the good plants a really bad rap, and also the think the way it was worded, the wrong name completely, was messed up in the article. Pure used grease, unrefined, is usually feed to pigs or some other animal, hence the name FEEDSTOCK. This always has some type of value for this and would never be dumped in a river, I think they had the name wrong, and possibly confused it with some other by product from Biodiesel production. Popular Science please look into this and correct it, I can tell you from experience this is very inaccurate and wrong.