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Replying to: yerth10 (Nov 28, 2005 1:20 pm) |
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Every week, we hear news about a new Bio-Diesel plant coming online or a fleet purchase of Bio-Diesel vehicles. If its price goes below $ 2.5 it will make a big push for Diesel. Even today there is a news about Bio-Diesel plant in www.greencarcongress.com |
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"Almost all of our customers run the highest blend that they can. Seattle is kind of unique in the nation," with private users pressing for the highest blends possible, said Dan Freeman of Dr. Dan's Fuelwerks in Ballard. "We have the highest concentration of individual users in the nation in the Puget Sound area." "Environmental reasons, political reasons, every reason," said Seattle landscaper Ann Magnano, one of Freeman's customers. "It's about giving farmers the opportunity to keep farming ... helping the planet." "I'd rather pay American farmers than Saudi kings," said Shoreline resident Jeff Van Horn, who also likes using the cleaner fuel around his kids. Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia are all using biodiesel for at least some of their public transit and service vehicles. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/249964_gbio28.html |
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In promoting biodiesel - as the EU, the British and US governments and thousands of environmental campaigners do - you might imagine that you are creating a market for old chip fat, or rapeseed oil, or oil from algae grown in desert ponds. In reality you are creating a market for the most destructive crop on earth. Biodiesel negatives |
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I'm told that brand-new ford pickups aren't appropriate for BD use becuase of their unusually high compression rates. What is the newest Ford pickup that COULD in fact be used for the biodiesel I'm making? I don't want to get something TOO old. It's costing me about 50 cents a gallon to make my biodiesel, and unfortunately, I'm making it faster than my Mercedes 300D can use it and I need a bigger vehicle to accomodate it.
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Replying to: danashields (Mar 07, 2006 8:15 am) http://www.biodiesel.com/ PS He is the fellow that got Willie started on pushing biodiesel. |
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Good story, The star at last week's Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car — one that combines performance and practicality under one hood. But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel fuel to boot. A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No — just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School soy power |
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Replying to: loveshemp (Jul 27, 2004 1:26 pm) |
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Replying to: mitch9 (Oct 23, 2005 9:38 am)
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Replying to: pete55 (Mar 10, 2007 6:17 pm) "As I understand it I need to have my elastomer (in gas tank) removed and the fuel lines changed. I'm getting the detail behind this and then I'll get the mechanic...." I'll let you know how it goes for him, and for me too, but it probably will be a week or two until we find out. --Ben
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