Biodiesel is a renewable fuel manufactured from vegetable oils, animal fats, and recycled cooking oils. Biodiesel offers many advantages: • It is renewable. • It is energy efficient. • It displaces petroleum derived diesel fuel. • It can be used in most diesel equipment with no or only minor modifications. • It can reduce global warming gas emissions. • It can reduce tailpipe emissions, including air toxics. • It is nontoxic, biodegradable, and suitable for sensitive environments. • It is made in the United States from either agricultural or recycled resources. • It can be easy to use if you follow these guidelines.   Biodiesel for Decision Makers An excellent document that outlines the benefits of using biodiesel, particularly in school buses. Includes health, environmental, and equipment benefits Every weekday morning, 24 million children in the United States step into school buses to transport them from home to school. Every afternoon they go home the same way, spending on average an hour and a half each day on the bus. School buses drive more than four million miles per year and are the safest way for our children to get to school; but they could be safer. Ninety percent of the 454,000 school buses on the road today use diesel, a fuel that produces pollutants with health implications for everyone, especially children. Diesel exhaust contains significant levels of particulate matter that poses a health risk when it lodges in the lungs. Particulates can aggravate conditions such as asthma and bronchitis, and cause lung damage and premature death. Children are more susceptible to air pollution than healthy adults because their respiratory systems are still developing and they have faster respiration rates. Full PDF Document 2.98mb National Biodiesel Board Information about every aspect of biodiesel. The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is the national trade association representing the biodiesel industry as the coordinating body for research and development in the United States. Go to Site Comparison of biodiesel to ultra low sulfur diesel Displays data for major pollutants, showing that biodiesel even at only 20% shows greater emissions reductions than ULSD Biodiesel is a mono-alkyl ester-based oxygenated fuel, produced from a variety of renewable resources, including waste vegetable oils, cooking oil, soybean oil and animal fats. Biodiesel can be used in virtually any diesel engine, with no or few considerations to be addressed. Biodiesel acts like petroleum diesel, but produces significantly less air pollution, is renewable, is biodegradable and is safe for the environment... Go to Site 2004 Biodiesel Handling and Use Guidelines A thorough analysis by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This document is a guide for those who blend, distribute, and use biodiesel and biodiesel blends. It is intended to help fleets and individual users, blenders, distributors, and those involved in related activities understand procedures for handling and using biodiesel fuels. We hope it will be a useful tool, both when planning biodiesel use and as an ongoing resource.... Full PDF Document 1.7mb