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Bio-Diesel - Why I don't hear any buzz?

World is Green : Suhit Anantula's Blog on Rural India: Merc, Farmers & Biodiesel writes:

A bedecked Mercedes-Benz car is trail-blazing the southern highways heralding hopes of reduced dollar outgo on oil imports. The news for the forex managers in the finance ministry is that DC is experimenting with 100 per cent replacement of petro-diesel with biodiesel produced locally. Great news for a country that consumes over 40 million tonne of petro-diesel, most of it imported.

For the rural India the promise is that the wastelands and rocky terrain, where even thorns and thistles would not dare to grow, will be blooming with oilseed-bearing trees like jatropha.

DC, in this drive, is partnering with Hohenheim University, Germany, and the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar, Gujarat, a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratory. (CSMIR has the national mandate to reclaim the wastelands in the country). DC has taken to road this Benz car filled with biodiesel, derived from the oil of the tropical jatropha tree to prove that the non-edible vegetable oils too can ensure energy security and sustainable mobility.

Running a car on biodiesel-blends is no news to the world. Already such blends are used to run vehicles in North America, the European Union, the UK, Malaysia and several other countries.

Recently I have been hearing a lot of radio on alternate sources of energy. In all those shows, all the energy source they talk about is fuelcells, windenergy, solar energy and hybrid cars. I have not seen anybody talking about Bio-Diesel, so I am just wondering, why BioDiesel is still not considered as a serious alternate source of energy ?

What you say?