Eco Green Environmental News

I have compiled a few sites and tools I have found to be invaluable during my research online. Hopefully you get some use out of them also.

1. Carbon Footprint Calculator find out how much you damage and where you can save.
2. 30 gas Saving Tips that really work
3. Make your own Diesel and save $3+ per gallon in fuel
4. Recycle regularly because the amount of glass we toss into landfills is disturbing.

These are just 4 of thousands of sites and tools out there to help you get going. Next I am going to catalogue a bunch of very small changes you can make in your life to make a MAJOR impact. I want to share my day to day ideas on recycling, saving money on gas and electricity and much more.

The hobby makers of biofuel and the industry members alike are noticing the hard economy along with the gas drivers. Gone are the days of $1 per gallon b100 biodiesel.

What is biodiesel? It’s the biproduct of taking WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil) or SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) or any other combination of oils and breaking it down to a useable form in a diesel engine. That is the very very skinny of it. If you’re interested in biodiesel I would suggest visiting the BioDiesel and SVO Forums which has an endless number of topics discussing alternative fuel and biodiesel.

The cost of the supplies needed to produce the diesel for the homemakers is becoming insane and they can’t easy aquire the oil needed to make the diesel. Large companies are coming in and buying up the oil from restaurants before they can get to the free sources - or people are stealing the oil.

When a company buys SVO/WVO and produces biofuel, the costs involved force them to raise prices beyond what a home hobbyist would rate the final cost at (between $1.50 - $2 per gallon right now). After searching prices I found a popular bio fuel seller with rates at $5.69 + a required $75 membership to buy the fuel at that rate. Good Guys Biodiesel which to me is out of this world crazy. Sure there are more benefits to using this alternate fuel source such as reducing carbon footprint and smog, but frankly at almost $6 per gallon this sort of defeats the entire purpose of the biodiesel experiment.

Many home makers are now assuming biodisel is now a trend and thus will rise as with other commodities such as gas and diesel. It’s unfortunate that is has come to this point.

Don’t be discouraged though. As a hobby biofuel maker, you can still secure great sources of Waste and Straight vegetable oil and make your own at home. The hardest part is finding a steady source that will allow you to make enough to use on a regular basis. With diesel now at $5+ per gallon, making your own for $2 is NOT a bad thing, it’s just twice as expensive as it was 2 years ago.