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The use of Biofuels to reduce our dependence on foreign oil is being deliberately stalled and blocked by special interest groups. Exxon-Mobil, Texaco, the Western States Petroleum Association, the Engine Manufacturers Association, and the Alliance of Automotive Manufacturers have petitioned effectively to ban the sale of B100 (pure biodiesel) American automobile manufacturers have agreed to void the warrantees on any diesel vehicle that is run on biodiesel.

Let’s take a closer look at biodiesel as a fuel. Biodiesel has been shown to have the following properties:

1.       Biodiesel is not toxic. In fact biodiesel is less toxic than table salt. Petroleum diesel is mildly toxic.

2.       Biodiesel is biodegradable. Biodiesel is broken down and metabolized by soil bacteria faster than sugar. Petroleum diesel is extremely slow to biodegrade. A spill of petroleum diesel takes weeks to decades to break down.

3.       Biodiesel has more energy per gallon than petroleum diesel.

4.       Biodiesel produces forty percent less atmospheric carbon per gallon than petroleum diesel.

5.       Biodiesel lubricates the parts of a diesel engine better than petroleum diesel.

6.       Biodiesel can be made from any vegetable oil or animal fat. Petroleum diesel is made from petroleum, seventy-five percent of which comes from other countries.

7.       Biodiesel has a higher flashpoint than petroleum diesel, making it less explosive.

8.       Biodiesel is significantly cheaper than Petroleum diesel.

With the safety and environmental benefits of biodiesel, why are the above special interest groups trying to block it? The answer to this question is clear when you look at who opposes biodiesel. The widespread use of biodiesel will cut into the record profits of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington, D.C., big oil. Throughout Europe, biodiesel is produced and sold. Automotive manufacturers in Europe have no reservations about the use of biodiesel in their engines.

If you don’t like paying ever higher prices at the pump, or facing the specters of fuel rationing and a vicious and corrupt black market, call or write your Senators, Congressional Representatives (Congressional Email Directory) and other government officials Federal, State and Local. Demand that biofuels be given a chance to ease the crisis. Big oil should not control the biofuels industry. Biofuels should be emergent from small business, creating new American jobs and restoring energy independence from foreign oil.

Richard Moolick

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