The problem is compounded in country such as China, India, and other under develop or developing country. They simply don't have enough farmland for food and fiber. Where are they going to have farmland for bio-diesel?

Some desperate analysis will say least import more rapeseed, soy bean, and coconut to produce bio-diesel for these country. The need for bio-diesel is so great it will simply force the price of rapeseed and soybean price up and the whole economic equation does not make sense to produce bio-diesel. The cost of transport and the whole transport infra-structure could not support the scale of import necessary to make a difference to these large populations.

The solution for these countries is oil nut bearing trees. Most of these tree species are strong drought resistant, and have strong tap roots. So they could be planted in poorer soil. Trees however take time to grow. There must be a two prong approach to this problem of having enough oil for the bio-diesel production in these countries. First is to build scalable bio-diesel plant. Each city in these countries must have a coordinated used oil collection system in place, to ensure collection of all the used cooking oil from the city to be converted into bio-diesel.

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