Biodiesel Rulez!!! [ARCHIVED]

**altec** · March 8th, 2006 03:45 PM

This one baffles me.

Innova E 11k+ mileage, with 1% BD, opacimeter result 0.84.

Innova E less than 9K mileage, using Petron Diesel, NO BD, opacimeter result 0.90.

The unit with 1% BD was purchased 3 weeks after the unit without BD use. Honestly, though the unit with BD had lower smoke test results in favor of BD, I was expecting the difference to be bigger than 0.06.

**garyq** · March 9th, 2006 01:33 AM

altec: two things. 1st ,most of the time prone sa error yung mga local tests. Hindi nafa-follow yung 6 readings at different rpms. Dapat average yun. I even had to teach the operator one time how to do it. (in fact very clear naman yung testing guideline sa LTO, minsan lang hindi sinusunod or worst binubuga ng todo para bumagsak ka and hingan ka ng lagay). 2nd. At B1 and using 2 new relatively new cars hindi malayo sa emission yan but sa scar marks sa internals ba ng kwento yan. At B1 malaki na improvement sa lubricity. Meron parin dapat sigurong enough difference sa opacimeter even at B1 but yung nga when they do the test kailangan pare lahat.

**altec** · March 9th, 2006 01:41 AM

gary, the test was conducted in the same emission center, but admittedly, there is a gap of over a week between the two units. What's even more baffling is that with the 11+km unit, it came from the 10,000 checkup, while the 8+km had only the 5K check up.

**garyq** · March 10th, 2006 02:01 AM

altec: ok na yan bro!

at least below ka sa 1 and you know that the internals of your diesel engine are much more protected if you use BD. Lalo na sa Innova na mayroon problema sa fuel pump d ba?

**falken** · March 12th, 2006 02:19 PM

BUSINESS & LEISURE By Ray Butch Gamboa
The Philippine Star 03/11/2006

[SIZE=4]Bio-diesel is good for the consumers. Is it for the oil companies?[/SIZE]
It looks like the merits of bio-diesel are slowly unfolding now. It took a long time coming, but studies have proven that bio-diesel is now a safe and viable alternative for motorists. And the government is making sure that the people are getting more aware of this.

But guess who's squawking?

In a recent news item I came across, Chevron Philippines, Inc., formerly Caltex is claiming that the studies conducted on bio-diesel’s viability are not nearly enough to consider it as an alternative for the daily motorist.

Should bio-diesel be made available in commercial quantities, think of its effects on global pricing. Countries with no black gold deposits to speak of can now be self-sufficient in fuel and can thumb their noses at those Arab countries that dictate world prices at their pleasure.

As for the existing giant petrol companies, the entry of bio-diesel can only mean huge infrastructure costs to them. Should this alternative fuel be made commercially available, and assuming that scientific studies will extol their merits with finality in the next couple of years, imagine the additional costs this would mean for these giant oil companies. They would have to have new pumps, new reservoirs, etc. One cannot start to comprehend the additional costs that all these would mean for these oil giants who have long ago settled back in chairs for a long, profitable haul. This has remained uninterrupted over the decades.

Is this why Chevron Philippines is squawking? Do we hear the other oil companies raising a howl as well? If you are going to believe the buzz in the coffee shops, word is if the idea crashed, it would be ironic to find out what sector caused it not to fly.

Next time you gas up in your friendly neighborhood gas station, don’t be surprised if the attendant asks you: palm sir, or kernel oil? Of course, this may not even happen in our generation, if the wheels of consumer interest continue to turn as painfully slow as it is happening right now, with the help of course of our friends at the oil companies. Still, it’s a bright ray of hope that someday, somehow, the little people will prevail over the giants.

Ang daming excuses na binibigay ng Big 3, natatakot lang mabawasan ang kita.

**aaron drin** · March 13th, 2006 09:19 AM

Guys,
Check this out! Finally we got the endorsement of the CAMPI! Hurrray!!!!!! Good thing they were able to visit our plant so they were impressed din! So guys, no problem na sa warranty! Pero still, they warned us that only to use those with good quality BD lang otherwise i void din nila.

CAMPI backs legislative measure on biofuels
By Donnabelle L. Gatdula
The Philippine Star 03/13/2006

The Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. (CAMPI) has expressed its support on the use of alternative fuels in the transport sector.

During the recent Bio-fuels Conference, CAMPI fuels and emission sub-committee chairman Jeff Matsuo the group has signified its support to a proposed one percent blend of coco-biodiesel.

Matsuo is also the head of Government and Regulations and Technical Section of Toyota Motors Corp.

"We believe that the one percent use of biodiesel for the auto industry is allowable," Matsuo said.

But Matsuo pointed out that the group only supports a one percent blend. "We need to have separate discussions if the blending ratio will be more than one percent," he said.

The support on the use of one percent pre-blending of coco-biodiesel is "an industry agreement and represents the overall position of CAMPI."

The CAMPI official said they have indicated their support to the Department of Energy (DOE) and the lawmakers who are now in the process of deliberating the proposed Biofuels Law.

"We have submitted to the DOE and Senate our position in support of government alternative fuels program," he said.

Matsuo, however said, the local car industry would need a two-year lead time from the passage of the bill for the use of these alternative fuels on new car models.

"We need more time to develop and manufacture vehicles. We need two years (from passage of the bill) to retrofit the new models," he said

Matsuo also pointed out that the group only endorses the use of coco-biodiesel and not yet for ethanol.

"We do not have endorsement yet for bioethanol. We are not yet amenable," he said.

Meanwhile, Senator Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. renewed his call to shift to ethanol as a strategy to address fuel dependence.

Pimentel is the author of a bill, currently pending in the Senate, which aims to establish a National Fuel Ethanol Program. The Senate Committee on Energy is set to endorse a measure mandating the phased blending of five to 10 percent ethanol as a means to achieve energy security, environmental improvement, and employment generation.