Bio-Diesel for City Gas Guzzlers

Jason Hoar, Bio- Diesel expert explains to Melissa McGinnis from Greenopolis TV that we can all "use" bio-diesel by suggesting to our City Officials to switch to bio- diesel fuel for our city trucks and buses.


Bio-diesel is a pretty simple fuel we can make from vegetable oils, animal fats, and restaurant grease. We chemically convert them so it's almost identical to diesel fuel. So you can use pure bio-diesel one day, regular petroleum the next, or anywhere in between. Basically, they're all lipids, and a lipid is like a three-legged octopus. So we take that lipid, that oil, we add a little alcohol in the catalyst, and we cut its head off. The head floats down to the bottom- that's the by-product, glycerol- and the legs, once they're tested and everything has happened properly- then that's bio-diesel. So we can grow it in any country, any place in the world. We can use rotation crops, these new algaes using aqua-culture are coming-up; and it's a great fuel. It's the best energy-balanced of any liquid fuel in history.

In the U.S., most of our cars are gasoline, we're really the last gasoline economy in the world, so short of buying a diesel vehicle and using it you can go to the school districts, to city council meetings and encourage the school buses, especially older ones, to use bio-diesel. You can read the studies on how bad the air is inside the school bus and using bio-diesel reduces that. All the city vehicles, the dump trucks, the street sweepers, all those diesel vehicles, could use bio-diesel. At airports, the little vehicles that move airplanes around (the transport cargo), can use bio-diesel. So the list goes on and on, and the National Bio-diesel Board, at bio-diesel.org- they have a great website that answers that question.

See if you can get your city running off on bio-diesel and let us know what you think. Are you able to convert any of your trash-trucks or your city vehicles to bio-diesel? It's an incredible way if you don't have a diesel car yourself to get these large operators running.

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[song110beforgiving]

@asymthought They can now make bio-diesel much cheaper than petro-diesel and from algae so it doesn't affect the food supply. They use ethanol to fund corporate profits; thanks George Bush for the wrong policies that caused inflation of food prices.

[song110beforgiving]

@EgaoNoGenki Yes; Virgin Airlines is working on trying it.

[MrCraigmire123]

i only watched this cuz the girl is hot.

[calmman32]

@asymthought Not really so. We can produce more food and we can do it right. In the US, we do not produce more food because of the supply and demand chain. Also, getting food to people is a problem in general. Some countries sell it, use it for their own purposes. If the US moves away from dependency on foreign oil, there will be some what less politics... just saying :)

[EgaoNoGenki]

If there's biodiesel, is there biojetfuel?

[asymthought]

Don't convert food crops to bio diesel ...then people go hungry.