The stench of diesel is pretty unmistakable. It’s the smell of being stuck behind a school bus on a long windy road for more than fifteen minutes. Or that black cloud that invariably is emitted by dump trucks when they start to chug up a long hill, or pull out from a stop light. The smell seems to pervade train tracks and construction sights—where diesel is king and nothing would get done without the heavy machinery it powers, or if you’ve ever stood on the deck of a barge—that smell is everywhere. It’s the smell of pollution, of crud filling up the atmosphere. But not for long—soon diesel may be the smell of environmentally friendly energy independence.
Over the past several years, as gas prices have skyrocketed, a variety of new energy sources have been bounced around, hydrogen, canola oil, gas-electric engines etc. Each of these, and host of other alternative energy sources share one common problem. These fuels won’t run in the engines of today, so in addition to being forced to completely rebuild the structure of the energy economy, we would also need new vehicles. One fuel source that skirts this problem in many vehicles today is bio-diesel.
Bio-diesel can be manufactured from new or used cooking oil, corn based is best—and the process is simple enough that it can be done safely by an intelligent individual in anyone’s garage. It can run in any diesel engine with few or no modifications (the exception being pre-1985 fuel lines). Bio-diesel burns clean—up to 95% less emissions that diesel or gasoline and runs engines just as efficiently and effectively. Even more attractive, the national average cost of bio-diesel hovers between 2.00$ and 2.50$ a gallon. And gas stations across the United States are starting to market this new innovative fuel.
So take action, if you own—or know someone who owns—a diesel vehicle look into the bio-diesel options near you. Change happens one person at a time, and the more people who decide they want to make a difference, one vehicle at a time, the sooner we’ll find ourselves one step closer to an environmentally friendly way of life and perhaps be able to start digging ourselves out of the hole that we’ve dug looking for oil.
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Source of Oil for bio-diesel facility. Arkansas and Geographic Area
Awhile back we had a really great discussion on my blog about this same topic,'Alternative Fuel Source discovered by high school students! A MUST READ!' i could tell you what it was about it, but it was an ongoing debate for about a month on the thread so too much to sum up! LOL but basically some high school students made a car that runs off of biodisel and i also found that biodiseal could easily replace diseal withouth any adjustments being made to our cars. the only problem is how to get enough biodiseal to stock the nation. And 2.50 is still expensive considering gas is 2.66 where i live.
A couple in Molalla Oregon (hickville somewhere on the west coast) are producing four hundred gallons of biodiesel in thier back yard every week. If people start using the fuel, the industry to produce it will develop. That's how all economic advancment occurs.
~CallieV