BIODIESEL FUEL IS BETTER
FOR OUR COUNTRY

Biodiesel is America's homegrown, clean air alternative to imported petroleum.

Biodiesel can be produced from domestic renewable resources including vegetable oils and recycled restaurant grease. Pure biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with no major modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulphur and aromatics.

Virgin vegetable oil used for the manufacture of biodiesel can be harvested from many oil feedstock plants like soybeans, sunflower seeds, rape seeds, palm oil and even some types of algae. Recycled vegetable oil from local restaurants and other used sources are also a useful reservoir of renewable fuel for diesel engines as approximately 4.5 billion gallons per year of used vegetable oil is available in the USA.

The concept of using vegetable oil as a fuel dates back to 1895 when Dr. Rudolf Diesel developed the first diesel engine to run on vegetable oil. He demonstrated his engine at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and described an experiment using peanut oil as fuel in his engine.

The overall smog forming potential from biodiesel hydrocarbon emissions is nearly 50% less than that measured for ordinary diesel fuel.

Biodiesel use leads to a healthier future

Improving the quality of the air we breath will reduce the incidence of asthma, lung diseases, and cancer.

Action is needed now to save the lives and future well-being of thousands of Americans who are known to be at risk each day from the carcinogenic consequences of diesel exhaust.

 What can be done about it? 

Future technologies may bring us zero emission vehicles and alternative transportations systems. Today however, public transportation and our nation’s tens of thousands of independent truckers run their engines on diesel fuel. 

Our diesel powered transportation system and the millions of jobs it supports is the economic bloodstream of our national economy. 

The cost of retrofitting America’s millions of diesel powered vehicles to cleaner burning alternatives is more than America’s independent truck drivers could ever hope to afford. 

Advanced technologies are just now emerging but the cost of buying new advanced vehicles is beyond the means of the tens of thousands who currently make their living hauling freight on margins that range from slim to none. 

At the same time, forcing independent truckers to buy new equipment that is beyond their means is just a way to force the families of ten of thousands into an unemployment that will not only create enormous human suffering for the truckers their children, and other dependents but also for the nation’s ports and the myriad of jobs and industries that depends upon them. 

Without the slightest doubt, disrupting the nation’s freight hauling transportation system will create a negative economic multiplying effect that will cost the jobs of millions of Americans and those that depend upon them the most. 

In an era of record-breaking government budget deficits, taxpayers will not bail them out.

The Cost of New Technologies Cannot be Measured in Dollars Alone

The sick, the unborn, the young, and the elderly will someday benefit from new technology but in the meantime, waiting until its here won’t save them from premature birth, lung disease, cancer, or an early grave. 

No families can afford the price of standing by to wait while their children and other loved ones suffer needlessly and no one should ask them to do so. 

Every day we wait for a solution adds thousands of names to the list of helpless Americans who can’t escape the benzene, arsenic, formaldehyde, and particulate matter from diesel exhaust that fills the lungs of pregnant women, the sick, the elderly, and our children. 

Introducing zero emission vehicles into the nation’s transportation portfolio is a good idea. 

Starting today by providing cleaner alternative fuel that runs in today’s diesel engines with less carcinogenic by-products is a better idea. 

Using biodiesel produced within our own borders by American farmers from a clean new agriculture, reducing smog and airborne cancers while at the same time promoting the introduction of  new clean and efficient technologies is the best idea. 

We need new technology and we need a solution for right now. We can do both.

Biodiesel keeps more fuel $$ at home

Biodiesel promotes energy independence

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