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Help Bring Biodiesel to Southwest Virginia!

This petition will be presented to fueling stations in the Blacksburg/Christiansburg area to show community interest in establishing the sale of biodiesel at a local station and to demonstrate market potential for biodiesel sales.

Biodiesel is a clean-burning alternative fuel for diesel engines, produced from domestic, renewable resources such as soybean oil. To join our email list, visit http://groups.google.com/group/swvabiod.

*If you do not plan to buy biodiesel in the area, please answer the questions with zeros.

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Biodiesel is a clean-burning alternative fuel for diesel engines, produced from domestic, renewable resources such as soybean oil. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend (e.g., B100 is 100% biodiesel; B20 is 20% biodiesel and 80% petroleum diesel). Biodiesel . . .  
  • can be used in any diesel engine with little or no modification
  • is less toxic than table salt and biodegrades as fast as sugar
  • improves engine lubrication 
  • provides comparable engine performance to petroleum diesel
  • shows similar fuel consumption, horsepower, torque, and haulage rates as diesel
  • is safer to store, handle, and use than diesel
  • decreases our dependence on foreign oil
  • is registered as a fuel and fuel additive with the EPA  
  • is the only alternative fuel to have fully completed the health effects testing requirements of the Clean Air Act
  • meets clean diesel standards established by the California Air Resources Board (CARB)

Biodiesel exhaust has lower overall emissions:

  • Unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter are substantially reduced compared to emissions from petroleum diesel.
  • Sulfur oxides and sulfates (major components of acid rain) are essentially eliminated compared to diesel.
  • A lifecycle study sponsored by the Dept. of Energy and the Dept. of Agriculture concluded that biodiesel reduces net CO² emissions by 78% compared to diesel, thus mitigating global warming.
  • Biodiesel emissions have decreased levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) that have been identified as potential cancer-causing compounds. Test results indicate that nearly all PAH compounds were reduced by 75% or more.

For more information on biodiesel, visit www.nbb.org.

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