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In 1895, Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine and used biodiesel made from peanut oil to fuel the engine (Emery 44). Biodeisel is made from domestic, renewable vegetable products like soybean oil and recycled cooking grease (Emery 44). Biodiesel is the best alternative fuel because it helps the environment by reducing CO2 emissions, it’s easy to convert to from regular diesel engines, and it’s a domestic, renewable energy source. B20 is a biodiesel blend of 20% biodiesel and 80% petroleum diesel (McClearn EBSCO). B20 is the common standard for biodisel use (McClearn EBSCO). Gene Gebolys, the president of World Energy Alternatives said: Biodiesel is not just for agriculture anymore, about once every 10 years, we get a strong reminder of just how dependent we are on foreign oil and why we shouldn’t be. We need to find new uses for our agricultural oil excess, and we need to find new sources of domestic clean energy. (Emery 44) Possible uses for biodiesel includes using it in cars and fuel for vehicles used in mines, regular diesel fuels hurt the miners health (McClearn EBSCO). Soybean oil has successfully powered cars, buses, and now boats.
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