Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Wired News: Green Berets Prefer Biodiesel

As I said before, diesel, not pipe dream nonsense like Hybrids and hydrogen vehicles are the short term answer to reducing non-renewable petroleum dependence. This is especially important given most of this petroleum comes from unstable countries full of maniacal zealots who hate us.

Check out this article and you can see the great success that the Military and other government agencies have had with biodiesel.

Tell your government representatives to stop wasting your tax dollars subsidizing E85 and start spending it on biodiesel programs and incentives to auto manufacturers to make more high performance, clean burning diesel vehicles.

Meanwhile, instead of waiting for the government to get off it's butt, you can do your part.
Buy a diesel vehicle. Right there you will get better fuel economy and be doing your part for the environment and reducing foreign oil dependence.
Next you can find a local station that sells biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuels. You can tell biodiesel blends because they are labeled Bnn. For example B20 means that the diesel is 20% biodiesel and 80% petrodiesel. Right there you have reduced your foreign oil use by 20%. Plus biodiesel is cleaner, and renewable so you are helping the environment too. Wont you feel good.
The final step is to make your own biodiesel and run 100% biodiesel. This is a bit of work, but considering you can make your own for less than 45 cents a gallon, it's well worth it!
Check out sites like the Collaborative Biodiesel Tutorial to learn about making your own biodiesel.


Wired News: Green Berets Prefer Biodiesel

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