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Economic Benefit
Are you dreading going to the pumps to fill up?
I know we were, but not any more.
There are alternatives though. In fact there are two alternatives.
One is bio diesel; Chemically thin the vegetable oil.
Two is Straight Vegetable Oil; Use heat to thin the oil.
We experimented with bio diesel but decided straight veggie oil was the way to go.
What to do in winter, when it gets below 10 degrees centigrade what will you do with your biodiesel? add some kerosene? some gasoline? buy petro-diesel? make the switch and run your car or truck on SVO 12 months of the year. Let us take care of the work of collection and mess of filtering and de-watering - Buy oil that has been centrifuged to less than 5 microns and dewatered to less than 400 ppm from our convenient location or have it delivered to your door
An appleseed biodiesel processor will cost you $1500 so for about the same price you could get a conversion kit and avoid the ongoing cost of chemicals and run all year round.
Vegetable oil fuel can also give greater fuel security, curbing our reliance on imported oil. as vegetable oil is produced domestically by local farmers.
Vegetable oil and biodiesel production can involve a great deal of processing and energy use, from sowing the seed to transporting the finished product. Each stage can reduce the environmental benefits, depending on how it is executed, and in the worst case scenario more than 50% of the benefits can be wasted. Intensive farming uses massive amounts of energy to produce fertiliser, distribute the fertiliser to the fields and harvest the oil producing seeds. Then there is the energy intensive oil extraction from the seed and the transportaion to and from centralised processing plant. This energy instensive scenario can be avoided by small community rather than large industrial operation where biofuel production is localised rather than centralised.
Community biofuels production already occurrs in places where there is no access to cheap energy such as electricity or oil that we take for granted in the modern world. In more remote places people produce biogas from waste products and process their seed crops using more basic and sometimes even hand operated machinery. Biodiesel production does not have to be an energy intensive process if the crop is grown without artificial fertiliser and the product is processed and used locally instead of having centralised processing plant with large road transport miles. This is our vision of the future as oil prices rise and people become more aware of global warming and the harm that pumping carbon out of the ground is causing.
See our Ford E350 Return on Investment here and Dodge D250 Return on Investment here
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