Why Bio-Diesel?
Bio-Diesel is the only alternative fuel to successfully complete the EPA’s rigorous emissions and health effects study under the Clean Air Act. Biodiesel provides significantly reduced emissions of carbon monoxide particulate matter, unburned hydrocarbons and sulphates compared to petroleum diesel fuel.
Additionally, biodiesel reduces emissions of carcinogenic compounds by as much as 85% compared with petro-diesel.
Biofuels are produced locally, and thousands of people are employed in the biofuel production plant. Since biodiesel is produced from crops, an increase in demand for biodiesel leads to a corresponding increase in demand for suitable biofuel crops. Moreover, it creates less emission by reducing the amount of suspended particles in the air. This reduces the cost of healthcare products.
When in its pure form, biodiesel is much safer than petroleum or even other fossil fuel alternatives. When biodiesel in its pure form is spilled somehow by accident, it causes much lesser damage than when a similar accident spills petroleum.
Besides lowering emissions at the point of use, biodiesel fuel-made from corn, soy, or other plant matter-had a past life absorbing carbon dioxide while it was growing as a crop in the field.
The industrial processes used to produce biodiesel are cleaner than conventional diesel processes, reducing emissions associated with the life cycle of the fuel by more than 80 percent.
With its past carbon dioxide absorptions balancing its later carbon dioxide emissions, biodiesel results in an overall life-cycle lowering of carbon dioxide emissions over both conventional diesel and gasoline.