What is Biodiesel?
Biodiesel is a clean burning, premium diesel fuel produced from oil bearing plants and recycled oils and greases.  Biodiesel is used as a cleaner, more efficiently burning replacement for, or additive to traditional petroleum diesel.

Why Biodiesel?
Your Environment:  Using biodiesel in any diesel engine helps reduce the overall vehicle emissions by over half.  Your Economy: Biodiesel supports our American markets by creating jobs in production, distributing, and the agriculture industry while reducing our dependence on foreign oil.  Your Safety: Biodiesel was classified as a  nonflammable liquid by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Who Is Using Biodiesel?
Many European nations have been realizing the environmental and socioeconomic benefits of bio-fuels for over a decade.  At home, singer Willie Nelson has been a public supporter and contributor, as well as actors Woody Harrelson and Daryl Hannah.  The United States Navy is the largest user of biodiesel in America while over 45 states are now putting biodiesel in school busses, city busses, ferryboats, cars, trucks, and home heating furnaces.

Biodiesel Considerations

Cleaner Engine
Using traditional petroleum diesel will lead to heavy sediment build up in a vehicles engine and fuel tank.  Switching to biodiesel immediately starts the process of breaking down and washing out these deposits leading to a cleaner, healthier engine.  Initially users should expect higher volumes of particulates in the vehicles fuel filters as well as increased filter usage as the engine is cleaned and flushed with premium biodiesel.

Material Compatibility
Biodiesel will break down natural rubber components when in contact for prolonged periods. Fuel delivery systems must have synthetic rubber or metal parts for extended usage of high percentage biodiesel blends.  Pure biodiesel is incompatible with; Brass, Bronze, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tin, Polypropylene, and Polyvinyl.

Low Temp. Usage
Biodiesel, like all diesel fuels, will start to gel at low temperatures.  Whole Energy combines the highest quality biodiesel products with proprietary seasonal additives to reach the freezing point with our pure biodiesel product.  Contact your local Whole Energy representative for optimum blending ratios.

More Information
For more information regarding Biodiesel please check out the National Biodiesel Board's website.