Fuel efficiency - more powerful than biodiesel
We believe that buying a fuel efficient engine and ruinously maintaining it is by far better for the environment.
That is why when we had the MV Sea Lion built here in Washington for wildlife viewing, we choose an engine that burns only 10 gallons of fuel per hour with a full 40 passengers aboard!
There are whale watching companies touting their use of biodiesel. Here are just a few things to consider:
1. If the biodiesel being used is corn - this ultimately is a bad thing (read more below)
2. What percentage of biodiesel is in their tank? Is it only 20% are they are using this for bragging rights?
3. Is biodiesel actually available where they fuel up? Here in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island it is usually not available or sporadically available
4. Lugger engines advises against using biodiesel as it could harm the engine and certainly the hoses going to the engine
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Biodiesel - probing Ethanol's Hidden Costs
The Case Against Biofuels:
Probing Ethanol’s Hidden Costs
Despite strong evidence that growing food crops to produce ethanol is harmful to the environment and the world’s poor, the Obama administration is backing subsidies and programs that will ensure that half of the U.S.’s corn crop will soon go to biofuel production. It’s time to recognize that biofuels are anything but green.by c. ford runge
In light of the strong evidence that growing corn, soybeans, and other food crops to produce ethanol takes a heavy toll on the environment and is hurting the world’s poor through higher food prices, consider this astonishing fact: This year, more than a third of the U.S.’s record corn harvest of 335 million metric tons will be used to produce corn ethanol. What’s more, within five years fully 50 percent of the U.S. corn crop is expected to wind up as biofuels.
C. Ford Runge is the McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law at the University of Minnesota, where he also holds appointments in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Department of Forest Resources. He is former director of the university’s Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy and has written for Foreign Affairs.
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Below find an article from 2005 when corn was being touted as king for fuel.
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