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	Biodiesel and its Uses

With rising gas prices as well as environmental awareness, there is an urgent requirement to look at alternate energy and fuel sources. One option is the use of Biodiesel fuel that is growing in popularity nowadays.

As Biodiesel is a cleaner-burning diesel fuel, obtained from completely natural, renewable vegetable sources, its uses in modern society can surprise you. Here are 9 methods in which Biodiesel is used, few of which may be beyond your understanding.

1. Biodiesel Car Rental: A Maui and Los Angeles car rental rents cars that use Biodiesel. These cars give 400-800 miles for each tank. This is quite cheaper than the price of gas nowadays.

2. Home heating fuel: Increasingly, people are considering Biodiesel as an option for heating their home. Most oil-fired or boiler furnaces can use Biodiesel (B20), a fuel comprising 80% traditional heating oil and 20% Biodiesel. Some people are modifying their furnaces to allow them to burn B100, a fuel comprising totally of vegetable oils that burns lot cleaner than traditional heating oil.

3. Electricity Generation: Diesel generators generating electricity, today use Biodiesel fuel. An excellent option to the normal coal burning electricity generating plants that are prevalent in the United States. Using Biodiesel is a cheap, clean and renewable method of producing electricity.

4. Trucking Industry: Increasing number of truckers are shifting from diesel fuel to Biodiesel fuel. There are various benefits besides the advantage of being environment-friendly and lowering our dependency on foreign oil, as well as saving money.

5. Agriculture: It not only produces Biodiesel, but also uses it. Tractors, reapers, tillers, pickers, conveyors, generators, pumps, and irrigation systems that previously used diesel fuel, today use Biodiesel to carry out their work, making agriculture, a producer and a consumer.

6. Marine Vehicles: Commercial fleets like ferries, recreational yachts, sailboats, and motor boats all use Biodiesel. Pacific Whale Foundation, using Biodiesel for the fuel for their boats is a good example.

7. Tax Benefit: The IRS is giving tax incentives to people who manufacture and consume Biodiesel fuel. The US Government is trying to lower greenhouse gas emissions by offering government funds to producers of Biodiesel fuel. The tax incentive helps tax paying customers by reducing the fuel bill.

8. Lubrication Additive: As Biodiesel is a better lubricant than present day low-sulfur petroleum, fuel injectors and other kinds of fuel pumps use Biodiesel fuel for lubrication. With suitable additives, engine performance can also be improved, thus increasing the lifespan of the engines. Other various applications can also utilize it's lubricate properties, like concrete forms and asphalt trucks. Due to its solvent properties, it is a safe parts cleaner, lowering skin and eye irritation caused by other cleaners.

9. Cleaner Environment: Biodiesel lowers carbon dioxide exhaust emissions by nearly 80%. Due to this, Biodiesel can lower air toxics and cancer causing compounds. On spilling, it rapidly breaks down into natural organic residues, without dirtying the environment.

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