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Old 03-07-2014, 10:48 PM
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In Canada biodiesel is added to all diesel fuel to reduce particulate emissions in all diesel vehicles. It's made from un-marketable canola oil.

I add BD to my diesel fuel to run B20 [approx] in my Toyota truck. It reduces my fuel cost from $5.00/USgal to $3.60/USgal. Currently running B26 in temperatures around -20°F, no problems for the past 4 years doing this.
Simple, easy cost effective. All I had to do was add a FPHE to heat the fuel, no other mods required.

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Old 03-08-2014, 04:09 PM
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New guy here, I've been cooking my own BioD for over a year and run it in both my GMC trucks. B99 in the warm months and B20 in the cold months. I plan on using it in my 1993 300D Mercedes that I just bought this morning as soon as I fix the rough idle issue.


my cost is about 1.40 a gallon not counting labor
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Old 03-08-2014, 07:08 PM
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I don't get the obsession with biodiesel. I'm perfectly content spending $3.70/gal for 53 cetane 100% crude based diesel fuel. I don't have to modify anything, I don't have to worry about swapping out filters or heating the fuel, I just drive the car. Even if it went up to $5 or $6/gal, my cost per mile would basically be inline with the average 300e driver today. Hardly worth worrying about.
I lucked out today and got diesel for 4.29 today.

That's why I'm gonna be making it when I retire or sooner.
Plus do a centrifuge and clean out some WMO.

I have people looking for industrial centrifuges for me as well as low pressure, medium temp 1 micron filtering apparatuses.
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Old 03-08-2014, 09:38 PM
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it's 3.60 to 3.90 around hear

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