Unfortunately, Camelina is still a long ways off from competitive prices. These are still experiments at this point.

It will be the producers challenge to bring the prices into the competitive range. Oil could skyrocket any time. There is still potentially plenty of competitive space for vendors like RTK. We don't know yet who will be competitive first or most competitive, until more plants are completed and the operations are scaled up. There is not enough data at this time to determine this. Secondly, there will be an issue with quantity, and a need for multiple vendors with different feedstocks.

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According to the Navy this is going to take a long time to put this into practice. "We're at the very beginning. It's going to be seven, 10, 15 years" before this is in widespread use, Brown says. "We have to be very meticulous in what we're doing."