This forum was started with certain ideals in mind, one of which which I believe was to raise political support and pressure for certain aspects of biofuel use in mainstream diesel supply's.
While this forum has been very successful in it's own right, from what I have been told and read, it appears that one of the reasons the current owner wants out is because the greater majority of forum members are more interested in the DIY aspect of using veg and are not interested in the politics of it which is at odds with the reason he created this board and several other sites which catered to those ideals in the first place.

If this is indeed the case as I'm sure it is, then this would be a very strong basis for the creation of a new Australian site which did cater for the DIY aspect and promoted things which are of the most interest to the majority of the membership of this forum.

Given a homebrewer/ hands on based forum, I am confident that the 2 boards could exist very happily together and provide an ideal place for those interested in veg fuels whatever their motivation was. It would also allow the development of either camp to progress their interests without the handbrake effect of those with opposing views.
In the worst case scenario of this forum closing, then there still would be a local forum where people could discuss the things that affect and apply to us here in OZ which at times is very different to what is important to the mainly US based alternatives.

Good all round I would say!