Our use of Bio-fuels began almost 10 years ago and to find even Biodiesel then was almost impossible. I started using biodiesel (80% diesel/20% biofuel) that's the best I could find.

My next season and a new source I reversed the blend to 80% biofuel/20% diesel. Everything ran just fine.

Bio-Fueled

The way my mind works pushes ideas to the limit. Why not 100% biofuel? So with a new source again I loaded up with 500 gallons of just 100% biofuel -conditioned vegetable oil. That felt good, smelled good

and my wife said I always came in hungry after a day on the tractor. (The exhaust smells like French fries).

Winter came and one fine sunny cold day almost minutes within the temperature dropping to 32 degrees the tractor sputtered to a stop. The biofuel gelled up and clogged the fuel filter and there was nothing I could short of waiting for the temperature to rise which wasn't going to happen that day. One night when silence came over the sounds of a blustery storm and we woke up to a foot of snow and no electricity, I couldn't start the big generator for the same reason. This wasn't good.

But I persisted using 100% biofuel nonetheless and took it a step further. Instead of using virgin vegetable oil conditioned into biofuel, I signed up with a Sacramento Cooperative Biofuel group who used biofuel made exclusively from recycled vegetable oil - the kind that fires a million chips, fish fillets or just fries. That was the ultimate GREEN thing to do - Recycle!

Using biofuel is not without problems and some say it's not the answer because there's not enough of it. Well then I consider myself one of the lucky ones that gets to save the world from a few tons of greenhouse gases each year and not inhale those nasty diesel fumes myself.

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