STRO-employee Suzanne Olivier just returned from her visit to the STRO-projects in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Below the fourth blog about her trip: The day that we travel to Grecia to visit one of our partners in Costa Rica, Coopevictoria, there is a strike of fuel stations in the country. This inevitably meant that the biodiesel pumps of the Cooperative in Grecia had a busy time. Coopevictoria produces biodiesel from used cooking oil that are collected by schoolchildren from restaurants, hotels etc. in the vicinity.

In one single morning the Cooperative station sold as much as 300 liters!  This is a good example of how in the case of worldwide peak oil prices  local communities could become independent from these rising prices, if they produce biodiesel themselves. And no, I am not unaware of the several discussions that are raging because of the food- fuel problematic, but bio-diesel can be produced so that it is environmentally friendly, whilst not putting food security at a risk. This has been proven in the Gota Verde project in Yoro, Honduras, a part of which has been replicated here in Grecia.