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[majiktt]

I've had my new tdi jetta for just over a week now, and its time for more fuel. I'm going to fill it up with biodiesel and see how it runs. For those of you who haven't heard of biodiesel, it's basically chemically altered vegetable oil. Producers of biodiesel make it out of things like soybean oil and recycled cooking grease. Isn't that cool

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[polaris_a]

Heya...saw you added my old journal, so just saying hi.

Hi.

Hidden costs

[anonymous]

The other appealing thing about biodiesel is that, beyond the emissions figures MajikTT cites above, when you factor in things like reduced transportation energy costs (all the fuel and environmental damage involved in transporting and refining the crude oil that becomes a gallon of gasoline from the middle east, not to mention the pollutants generated by bombing Iraq, etc.), it becomes even more appealing. Biodiesel is a domestic product, often produced locally, usually from grease that would otherwise simply be waste