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Although it is made from vegetable oil, biodiesel is so much like petroleum
diesel fuel that it functions like petroleum diesel and can be blended in
any ratio with petroleum diesel fuel. Since biodiesel has relatively low
emissions, it is an ideal fuel for use in sensitive environments and areas
such as: marine areas, national parks and forests, and heavily polluted
cities. Federal and state fleet vehicles and mining vehicles can also use
biodiesel in their existing diesel engines.
According to Dr. Kerr Walker, Senior Oilseeds Specialist at the Scottish
Agricultural College, "biodiesel offers the...only opportunity for
producing a renewable ecological transport fuel." Biodiesel has many
advantages as a transport fuel, the greatest of which may be that it is
produced from plants. Since plants are a direct product of solar energy,
plant-based biodiesel is really just liquid solar fuel! |
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