When the Council of Agriculture organized its 2005 conference on bioenergy, few in Taiwan had ever heard the term. Even among the attendees, few would have imagined that the small bottled sample of biodiesel they held in their hands at the conference would soon be fueling garbage trucks and making their exhaust smell like frying food.
2005 年，台灣民眾還很少人聽過「生質能源」，當年以此為題的研討會在農委會舉辦時，與會者人手一小瓶生質柴油樣品，想像著不久後穿梭於街頭巷尾的垃圾車居然可以飄散炒菜油香味，無不嘖嘖稱奇。