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Biodiesel Fact Sheet: 25 Things To Know

Biodiesel is a popular subject these days due to many factors including world tensions, oil prices, and the environmental impact of petroleum based fuels. There is a lot of information floating around regarding Biodiesel, some true and some not. Below sits our fact sheet of things to know about Biodiesel.

• The process of turning vegetable oil into Biodiesel is called transesterification.

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Ethanol Fact Sheet: 18 Things To Know

Due to the price of gasoline, world tensions, and environmental issues there has been a lot in the news lately regarding alternative-fuels. One of the more talked about alternative-fuels is ethanol, what follows is a basic fact sheet on this popular biofuel.

• Ethanol is a vegetable oil based fuel as opposed to standard petroleum fuel.

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Methanol is Different than Ethanol, But it Can be Used for Automobile Fuel

What is Methanol? Well it is wood alcohol or methl-alcohol and for automobiles there is an M85 Blend, which is like the Ethanol E85 Blend. The M85 Blend has 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent methanol. In the United States our methanol blends use natural gas but we can also make it from coal, biogas, sewage were even cow pies, pasture patties, meadow muffins, sidewalk Sundays and well, you get the point.

The good thing about methanol is the octane rating is fairly high in that means good performance and even better performance than normal gasoline. The methanol can be unstable it is used in some high performance racecars, but when it is mixed with gasoline it is not quite is dangerous.

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Consider the Alternatives

Alternative Fueled Vehicles and Alternative Vehicle Fuels

Driving a car fueled by something other than gasoline or diesel fuel is no longer the stuff of science fiction. In addition to conventional gasoline and diesel fuel, reformulated - cleaner - gasoline and alternative fuels now are sold in many parts of the country. Alternative fuels such as methanol, ethanol, compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and electricity produce fewer tail pipe pollutants than conventional gasoline and diesel fuel. Using them could improve our air quality.

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