I BELIEVE that we get ~ 20% of our oil from the middle east. Right now we subsidize farmers to grow crops that get thrown away. There’s a local biodiesel production facility here in OC that takes byproduct from local chicken plants (soybeans) and makes it into biodiesel. They actually get paid money to remove it from the chicken plants because it saves them from having to pay to have it disposed of otherwise.
It CAN be done.